5 very weird habits that keep me in high vitality, inspired, persevering, performing and with always the desire to bring value, especially as an #empathetic and #introverted profile that often needs to recharge and can quickly get overwhelmed… And also #Multipotential that needs challenge, variety and to feed its curiosity :
🚫”Do not disturb, don’t kill my flow” mode: During my working hours, I switch to #DeepWork with calls screened (only relatives for emergencies) and during my non-working hours, it’s work that’s blocked 🙂
🐻Hermit Mode : When I feel the need to take a few hours or even a few days without outside stimulation: cut off from the internet and social interactions. I cut myself off from the noise of the world just to breathe and recharge my batteries, often in nature.
👂Mode “I hear but I don’t answer right away!” : I’ve set myself an important rule. I take a lot of distance from solicitations, criticisms, suggestions and requests. Not that I don’t listen, but I take time between “I’ve heard” and “I respond”. There are several reasons for this: emotional, to stay clear-headed about the right decisions, to sort out what’s relevant and what isn’t, not to be available all the time (we know what happens if we get others too used to always being accessible). Having a very impulsive temperament, I’ve learned to take time before any responses: words or decisions.
💡Serendipity Mode: I get a lot of my “colleagues” (who do the same job) asking me all the time why I do this or that… As if everything was calculated to be profitable and I had to copy a strategy to find out if it works or not… That’s not my state of mind: I explore, I test, I change field and environment, I see where it leads… And then I eventually sort it out or something. My creativity needs movement and exploration, without any calculation of profitability behind it…
🔥Fire Mode: I need sprinting and intensity. I know how I work. There are habits I can manage in “marathon” mode, but I perform better when there’s something at stake, a challenge and a deadline, otherwise I get bored fast! Sometimes I go into fire mode, where I knock out a huge amount of work in a short space of time (people still find it hard to understand), like at the end of May and beginning of June when I finalized 1 book, 1 event, and a whole crazy plan for the second half of 2023… This fire mode then needs hermit mode for balance!
I don’t believe in balance all the time: we alternate phases and priorities that create a balance in movement, it’s not fixed…
I’m either in action or at rest, completely present or absent, I don’t like to do things by halves. It’s 100% or nothing…
It’s also important to understand how we work, our rhythms, what suits us, rather than giving universal rules that we can’t relate to, to the point of wondering if we have a problem…
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