Are you tired, or unmotivated?
Description
Some days you wake up and you already feel drained. You haven’t really done anything yet, but the weight of the day is already on you. This has been happening a lot and you have been telling yourself that maybe you just need a bit more rest, a bit more balance, or just a weekend off. But even after you sleep, even after you take a break, the feeling just doesn’t go away.
Then you finally ask yourself the important question: but I like my job. So why does it now feel draining? You don’t want to leave because you truly still believe in what you do, you’re still proud of your work, but it’s starting to feel harder than you know it should and rest isn’t fixing it. If this is where you are, then this is the point where you need to stop asking what’s wrong with your energy and start asking what’s missing from your motivation.
Then you finally ask yourself the important question: but I like my job. So why does it now feel draining? You don’t want to leave because you truly still believe in what you do, you’re still proud of your work, but it’s starting to feel harder than you know it should and rest isn’t fixing it. If this is where you are, then this is the point where you need to stop asking what’s wrong with your energy and start asking what’s missing from your motivation.
Summary
Tiredness and detachment feel so similar and that is why they can easily be confused for each other. When you still care about your work and you still believe in the mission, the last thing you expect is to feel numb. Unfortunately, that is exactly what happens sometimes. You know you are not in the wrong job, but your energy for it is somehow low. This is not something rest alone can fix. Finding a new job won’t fix it either because you still haven’t gotten to the root of it. What you might need is to find a way to connect to your work again. Figure out how to do that and you’ll realize the problem was never exhaustion.
