Exhaustion and Back to the Basics

One thing I have been working on in the past year is listening to my body, not overdoing it, and getting more rest.

I have generally been getting much better at it, but this past week and weekend proved to be a major failure and I’m paying for it today.

We had team members visiting San Francisco last week so we have a jam packed schedule of meetings, dinners, etc.

I started to feel the exhaustion hit on Thursday evening after a dinner. On Friday, I took off on a preplanned trip to Seattle to catch-up with friends and watch my Huskies take on Oregon.

It was a fun, but terribly exhausting weekend filled with late nights, early mornings, and partying with friends. I did my best to recover and relax on Sunday night after I got home, but the pure exhaustion and anxiety kicked in.

I felt mentally, physically, and emotionally drained. Sleep was hard to come by despite being exhausted.

The bad vibes carried over to today and I was very sluggish to say the least. I made to to the mid-afternoon when I crashed and decided that I needed to listen to my body and take care of myself. I was inspired by a tweet I saw yesterday that the best care in life is the basic things in life: rest, working out, eating healthy, etc.

After leaving work, I got a quick run in to try to sweat things out and get a natural mood boost. Now I’m at home, getting some rest, and taking a bit of time away from work.

In retrospect, I wish I had just taken the day off rather than try to power through. While I have been getting better at listening to my body, I still have a long ways to go.

I’m looking forward to a week and weekend of rest. Back to the basics.