Living Out of Flow.

How has your first quarter of 2024 been?

Highs? Lows? Where was your energy?

For the first 2 weeks of March, I have felt both stressed and exhausted. So I took time to reflect on the why.

On a normal day, when I get up and everything is in “flow” my natural energy is sunshine yellow, I’m an outgoing people person and feel at home being amongst people, delivering masterclasses, keynotes, talking, interacting and generally being with other people sharing my knowledge and experience.

However, I have noticed that I have been spending a lot more time bouncing between my D (red energy) and S (green energy). My D is a natural energy for me, but comes higher than my yellow when I am under pressure. My S is below the line for me so is not a natural energy, it’s a lower energy for me and I need to work on being in that energy. Being in RED energy is stressful for me and being in GREEN energy is exhausting for me. I know I can be all different personality styles but when we are in our natural energy, this is when we are in flow.

Without a whole “Woah is me” post, a couple of things that have impacted me, both personally and professionally.

Personal

Jan: Skin Cancer Diagnosis
Feb: Surgery to remove the above
March: Help Mum sell her house and moved her in with me and my husband (temporary 6-month move)

Professional:

Jan: Onboarded a new very large client with a 12 month contract
Feb: Launch my Podcast “it Starts with YOU!”
March “Renewing all my written material / programme information etc”

With all the above together, I realised I had bounced around in what I describe as my “non-natural” energy zone. So for Quarter 2, you will find me living back in my sunshine Yellow state.

Do you take time to reflect?

Do you know where your natural energy zone is?

When you are feeling stressed or exhausted do you look a the people, places and tasks around you and evaluate which is the area pushing you out of your natural energy zone?

Let me sum this up by saying we can ALL live and work in different personality styles and energy zones but if it is not our natural energy it is not sustainable to stay there for long, burn-out.

Crash/depression will creep up if we do not have self-awareness.

There are people that will not support you, because it’s you. And then there are people who will always support you because it’s you. Find your supporters, these are your people.