Bunny Young talks about running on empty despite looking successful, and how to spot what's draining your energy. She walks through a four-part self-care approach and gives concrete fixes: list 5 or 6 things that restore you, then remove the drains—unsubscribe, set boundaries, clean up your space.
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Talking about when you're tired, when you're tired, say, hi, Lindsay. Lindsay's on Instagram. So last week or last month, I should say this is the first month of June that we're doing this live. If you're joining us live. First off, if you're joining us live, let me know if there has ever been a time where you've just hit, hit a wall and found yourself running on empty. So that was my March or my May was that, you know, we all good things like we made this difference makers community. And I wrote this ebook and there's just a lot going on that was positive that I was trying to stay focused on and trying to be positive about. But there's like energy leaks that sit on your lap and need your energy. And so there's, you know, negative, let's call them negative things that zap your energy, like having an awesome day, playing on the trampoline. And then there's also positive things like writing an ebook or putting together a bunch of stuff, workplace wellness. Because with everything going on in the world, it's like I had this bag of tools and I really wanted to be able to use them and I wanted to be able to help. And I felt like this was the way I was going to help. And so, you know, but when you're caring for a loved one, you're caring for kiddos, you're caring for pets, it can be difficult. And that's why, you know, normally when you're planning on doing a live lunchtime and then you end up saying, you know what, you know what would give me energy? It's going to take energy to make these kiddos lunch, but it would give me energy to sit down and enjoy having lunch with them. And so being able to. There's a couple things that I want you guys to do is I want you to be super conscious of when you are running low on energy. And I'm not talking about like River Phoenix movie. I'm talking about like when you're running low on energy. And then I want you to write five to six things that bring you the restore energy for you and that you can go to. Baby, when you pull on that, see, it makes all the, the people move up there. Did you know that? You know that you can wave to them? You know, and there are times and days when like all I want to do is, is be with the horses. And there are times and days where, you know, just chilling with the kids seems like a really good day. And I can tell you that being Here with you and these lives and this opportunity for you to join and for you to ask me questions live and for you to know that this crazy thing called entrepreneurship or business ownership or being a professional in today's world, that you're not alone. And that there is at least one workplace wellness warrior out here fighting the good fight for you. You want to turn it off? Well, we'll turn it off. So by being able to, by being able to know and have that self awareness of when your tank's running on empty and then being authentic and honest like I am right now. I mean, I'm the work life alignment queen, the guru, the subject matter expert. And so. But authenticity is one of my core values. And so to come at you and be like, look like we're recording this at 10:30 at night because this thing won't go to sleep. And we've been like just having fun all day long and it's been awesome, but I'm tired, she's not. And my commitment to her is that I'm gonna be there and make sure she's safe. And so, you know, I have this list for the four parts of, you know, self care, mind, body, energy and spirituality. And so today I went and rode for a couple hours and that gave me enough juice to be able to come home right now. Because being, you know, hubby doing his duty to our service and our country, you know, like, I'm just on the, on the home front. But you know what gives me a ton of energy and fills my love tank is when you do what, what can you. One big one. Show everybody one big one. So. And the last thing that I want to leave you with is that an energy leak doesn't just come from your actions or your lack thereof. Energy comes from the environment that you're around. And so if you're, you know, in an area that's experiencing riots or that's experiencing protests and that can impact your energy, there are energy leaks all around. There's energy leaks in your company, there's energy leaks. When you start hitting that unsubscribe button, some of those are energy leaks. And so unsubscribe and take care of those energy leaks and so that you can get that needle to back up to maybe not quite full, but it always fascinates me when I think about people who go on vacation and it's like they get so much done prior to vacation knowing that they're going to go on vacation and then they go on vacation and very rarely do they actually 100% disconnect. And then they're shocked when they come back and they've got three times as much work. And it's like it wasn't even worth taking a vacation. And it's like just that mindset, you know, like just that mindset. It's not. That's an energy leak. And it could be an energy leak for you. And so I invite you to find ways to restore your energy and ways to be authentic with yourself, with your clients, within your company, with your team when you're running low on energy. And if you didn't get the Starfish story from this morning, sharing about my energy leaks in the past month and being authentic and vulnerable and sharing about that, then please let me know in the comments and I'll make sure you're added to the starfish stories. So hopefully next week will be Wednesday around lunchtime. And I can tell you right now that we're going to be sharing about the Great Pause in the perspective of instead of this, this time being, you know, kind of everything stopping, but like the great Pause and what we can gain out of the moments that we've had to reflect and to be home with our families and. Or with isolation, cooking for ourselves or connecting with local business owners through takeout orders and kind of. There's a blog up on ABP's website, so betterplaceconsulting.com forward slash blog. And you can always catch them there, but we also send them out through Starfish stories or on LinkedIn. So I would love to connect with you there. If you're not watching this on LinkedIn and getting all of these awesome comments there, then you definitely feel free to follow unnyhas6legs, because most of you know, here are the other six legs down here. And make sure Instagram gets in on this. He's like, mom, I am way too tired of this. So. But on Instagram, it's unniehasix Legs. And Sherry, if you want to DM me your email, I'll make sure that you're added to that, that list tomorrow. So stay safe, stay sane, and thank you so much for making the world a better place.
