Burnout

[thewickedm]

I've just been through a mad week of studying. Everyday I focused hard on my school work(apart from keeping my gf happy), staying up well beyond my usual waking hours. I felt like a robot at first, having no time and energy to do other things that I enjoy, even to the extent of declining lunch appointments with friends in school just so I could quickly get home to study. As the days went past, I started to notice something. My energy level was less than half of what it used to be, and I felt lethargic, loathing the very fact that I had to study. As a result, my efficiency in studying dropped, and I took every chance I could to slack off by creating excuses for myself. As a result, I started lagging in my studies, and because I couldn't finish what I set out to do or had planned to complete in the daily agenda I had drawn up for myself, the work piled up and my stress level rocketed.

Then it suddenly struck me as I sat down at my desk after the gf went home, that this was not the way life was supposed to be. Granted, we have to work hard be it at work or in school, but if we let what we are supposed to do dominate our lives and not leave space and time for what we want to do, our productivity drops and we become drained eventually. Give yourself permission to live your own life - that does not mean I'm giving you permission to neglect the other responsibilities in life and start wrecking havoc. Don't sweat the small stuff, do them, but cut yourself some slack and realise that there is more to life than just studying/work. Smell the air around you, marvel at the world, enjoy life. Go read the book you bought ages ago but was too busy to finish reading, catch a movie that you've been wanting to catch, take a bus to nowhere familiar and experience life.

 

[Scar Tissue]

and exersise. Its just as good for the mind as it is the body

 

[thewickedm]

I totally agree with that, exercise is a good way to bust stress and get some testosterone flowing. Cheers man!