Let The Creative Juices Start To Flow

You know, I don't think I realized how burned out I was feeling until I spent a few days on vacation....Sitting on the beach or struggling on the golf course. I had been pretty much working 24/7 the last 8 weeks and thought I was handling it pretty well. NOT SO.

I was really overworked, overtired and spread pretty thin. My creative juices were dried up and my brain was beginning to feel like mush. Even I can fool myself into thinking I am some kind of junior super hero. I can do it all and even do it with ease. But in fact I was like a computer that was running slow.....slower...and finally slowest.

I came to Hilton Head with my computer in hand and bags of work related texts to read and immediately went to war with myself. It was a fight between what I "thought" I needed to do and what I really wanted to do which was to relax and hopefully recharge my batteries.
I am happy to admit that what I wanted to do and in the end what I really needed to do is what I indeed did. I got some sleep. I sunned myself and swam for hours. I rode my bike everywhere. Yes I did some work but I did try to keep it to a minimum.

And lo and behold the creative juices began to flow again. The fog is beginning to lift. I am starting to sleep....Yeah! I can take that step back and see that while I am in this transition phase of my life it is easy to slip out of balance...and pay the price.

I talk to women everyday about staying in balance and now again it's time to heed my own advice. Over the next few days I plan on getting a better structure in place so I don't go overboard once I hit N.J. again,
A few more days of sleep, swimming, sun, my bike and oh yes golf and them it's back to work...at a more healthy pace.