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What about little or no will to do things?

Hi everybody,

I was wondering if someone has ever experienced this kind of "chronic fatigue" or simply put, lack of will or energy to do simple things.

My current status: I work as a CIO for two countries in a big company. I have a strong technical background (more than 15 years) and now I have to deal with many different problems (specially company politics), aside of pure technical situations. My main problem, as I mentioned before, is the chronic lack of energy to do things apart from my job. I always wanted to learn french and german or to read more books (I used to read 4 or 5 books a month), but when I get home, I don?t want to do anything but rest. I?ve tried everything: meditation, medication, exercise (I do some workout regularly), 8-hour sleep cycles, balanced food, etc., but nothing seems to work, or at least, to have lasting effects.

Lately, I?ve been experiencing concentration and lack of focus problems, which is bad for my job. It seems that the problem is starting to affect my work as well.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

TOPICS: Life Hacks
michaelramm's picture

One word... VACATION I use my vacations...

One word...

VACATION

I use my vacations to re-energize myself. Unfortunately, I just started a new job as a 1-man IT dept for a small local municipality and I have NO vacation for a year. So I guess that I will have to plow through it for '06. [Except for taking off Thurs and Fri to have a baby :D ...ok, wife is having baby, but still stressful on the DADs too.]

I also like to go to baseball games to relax. Luckily, we have a major univerisity here (University of Alabama) and a AA Minor league team (Birmingham Barons) with in 45 minutes. And it helps that the wife and 3 yr old love basesball also.

Michael

 
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