What question do we need to regularly ask ourselves to check that we are energised and not drained? The question you need to ask won’t be the same as anyone else. We all need to identify the health check question that checks we are staying on the path to maximising our potential.
For me, the question I need to ask myself is how much space do I have for dreaming, imagining, and creating. If I don’t have enough space for this, no matter what I’m doing, I start to become drained.
I need space to think about the future, I need space for ideas and creative thinking. These are the things that keep me fresh in every aspect of life. If these things are happening, pretty much everything else will be alright too.
What’s your question? What are the areas that breathe life into you? What are the activities that energise you? Create your life potential health check question around these. No matter what, you need to make sure you protect the activities that energise you even when life becomes snowed under by the urgency of now. If we don’t protect the things that energise us we will start to feel more and more swamped.
Not only this, the quality of your work will start to deteriorate. Staying energised makes every aspect of life go better. Allowing ourselves to become drained starts to erode our perspective on life and eat away at our attempts to maximise our potential.
This is why it is so important to know our health check question and ask ourselves it on a regular basis.
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I don’t know if it’s too late or what, but I’m not coming up with an answer for this post. I don’t think I have a question I ask myself. Maybe I need to come up with a question.
I have some food intolerances that, when left unchecked for a few days, cause problematic symptoms that affect all areas of my life. It’s easy to allow a little bit of the offensive foods in and it’s difficult not to prevent having them in many cases, so I find I sometimes wake up and am neck-deep in symptoms I could’ve prevented to a good degree. Monitoring my food more seriously helps me avoid illness and loss of energy. I’m going to schedule a weekly reminder for myself to take stock of how I feel as a preventative measure.
Okay, I thought about it. It seems too simple, but more than once a day I have to remind myself to breathe. Just to sit down and breathe in and let it all out. When I do that, it clears my head and I can move on with my next task.
As for long-term care for myself, I allow myself to dream up something impossible…and sometimes frivolous. Like what exactly would I buy on a shopping trip in London? Where would I go, how would I get there, where would I stay. Or if I had 4 days to go anywhere in the world, and money wasn’t an issue, where would I go, what would I do. Of course I don’t put any of these things into action, but it is fun and refreshing to me.
That’s great. It doesn’t really matter if the question you need to ask is realistic or not. If it breathes life into you and reenergises you then it is good!
My question is related to purpose. I’m constantly questioning the motivation and purpose behind what I’m doing.
I have realised that if I don’t feel like there is a meaningful purpose behind what I am doing, then I find it very hard to put my all into that task. So, in terms of daily tasks I always need to remind myself of the greater purpose or perspective in order to motivate myself.
If I feel like what I am doing is without a greater purpose then I also become drained and start to lose confidence in myself and my ability to complete the task. I have seen this happen when doing mundane office jobs in-between studying. This is when I need to remind myself of the reason I am doing the job (earning money for something else I have planned). Or I need to find the meaning and purpose in what I am doing, to gain a greater perspective. So with an office job, the meaning would be in the potential relationships I can form and the positive influence I can have in my environment.
I guess everyone will define ‘meaning’ and ‘purpose’ according to their individual outlooks and expectations of life, where mine would be focused on people and loving those people. Someone else might see their purpose in fixing that person’s washing machine for example.
That’s great, Marishka. I think in many ways no matter who we are or what health check question works for us, it’s all about perspective. Perspective has a way of breathing life into us.
Thanks for stopping by and sharing!