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What about little or no will to do things?
Ferrante | Mar 27 2006
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. 30 Comments
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 It also may be helpful...Submitted by emuelle1 on March 28, 2006 - 4:59am.
It also may be helpful to write out a list of your goals. I was working toward something for years and getting nowhere. I sat down and defined a list of 90 day goals, and looked at it each day. After a couple of weeks, I suddenly realized that the one goal just didn't matter to me and really wouldn't benefit me in a great way in the long term, so I changed course. I decided on what I wanted to do and found myself acting very quickly. Of course, work is a different matter, as often tasks at work that don't really matter to you do matter very much to your paycheck and livelihood. I get the daily emails from Think TQ. Sometimes they're really inspiring, and sometimes I just breeze through them and delete them, but they do keep reminding me that sometimes the smallest tasks in life require some very high level thinking. » POSTED IN:
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