How to Restart Your Personal Battery

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“How to Restart Your Personal Battery” by Joan Y. Edwards

It’s Monday. Most days your inner car goes, “Varoom, Varoom, Swoop” and off you go.
But today you’re telling me that your personal battery seems a bit sluggish. Now when you turn the key to your body, it goes “Paroom, paroom, da doom. plunk.”
You are usually the one who GTD (Gets Things Done), but oh no. Not today.
That doesn’t sound good to me. You seem to have a definite lack of energy. What can you do? What are ways to recharge your inner battery  so that you can tackle a few things you want to do today, tomorrow, or any day. Especially when you’re trying to be more accountable to accomplishing your goals.
Here are 8 suggestions that might work to help you see things in a different way that gives you more energy and helps you see yourself in a more positive way.
  1. Pray. Ask God to replenish your energy and calm your fears. If possible, make a visit to your church or a place in nature that inspires you and fills you with peace.
    Isaiah 40:31  “But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”
  2. Listen to your favorite calming music.  Sing your favorite hymn.
  3. Draw, paint, or do ceramics. Cut out pictures from magazines.
  4. Change Your Focus – Leslie Baker says to Focus on who you are rather than on what you can do. Focus on the traits of the real you. Focus on the traits you wish you had as if you already have them.
  5.  Go to a different room in your home or go outside. Look through pictures of fun times.  
  6. Take a short nap. Sometimes you are worn out from trying to juggle too many things at one time.
  7. Make a list and take action. Make a new list of what has to be accomplished and how long it will take to do it. Put a star beside the things that must be done today. Set the timer for the time needed for one item on your list. Do it. It’s amazing. Your energy may surprise you and go “Varoom, Varoom, Swoop” 
  8. Dance, walk, or do other exercise. It will give you endorphins that make you happy. 
    Thank you for reading my blog. Let me know what gives you energy when yours seems zapped.  Please leave a comment. Let me know if there’s a topic you’d like for me to discuss in a future article. 

    Never Give Up
    Joan Y. Edwards, Author
    Copyright © 2009-2023 Joan Y. Edwards

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***“Believe You Can and You’re Halfway There:”

Believe You Can and You’re Halfway There


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 Accountability Corner posts
“Accountability Corner”
https://joanyedwards.com/accountability-corner/
“Accountability Corner – Step 2 – Project Ideas”
https://joanyedwards.com/accountability-corner-step-2-project-ideas/
 “Accountability Corner – Step 3 – Your Weekly Project Plan:”
https://joanyedwards.com/accountability-corner-step-3-your-weekly-project-plan/ 

Other Resources
“7 Ways to Pick Yourself Up Back Up:”
https://zenhabits.net/feeling-down-7-ways-to-pick-yourself/
“Healthy Ways to Cope with Failure:
https://www.verywellmind.com/healthy-ways-to-cope-with-failure-4163968
Leslie Baker. “What to Do When You Feel Failure”
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/making-change/201611/what-do-when-you-feel-failure

Celebrate Your Efforts

“Celebrate Your Efforts” by Joan Y. Edwards

I feel it is important to celebrate your efforts at accountability for your project. Minute by minute. Hour by hour. Day by day. Week by week. Month by Month. Year by year.
If you celebrate your efforts often, it will help you accomplish more of your goals. It will lead you farther down the path to completion of your project.  It will help you get back to work again with fervor and excitement. It will help you work with enthusiasm.
By celebrating, I mean an inner celebration. More of celebrating by fixing your favorite dessert or putting fifty cents in a jug for charity or a trip to your favorite restaurant or watch your favorite movie. I don’t mean bragging to everyone how great you are. It’s the inner person I want to help you build up. The inner you that sometimes your inner critic cuts you down because you aren’t accomplishing what he thinks you should do.
Since this is Accountability Friday, I am celebrating completing the second week of working 2 hours a day (10 hours a week) on the illustrations for my upcoming book, Larry the Terrifying Turkey. I have finished last page draft and have draft for the lunch room scene. It is fun to say to people who call and ask me what I am doing, “I am working on my illustrations for Larry, the Terrifying Turkey.”
I hope you can pretend I’m calling you and asking you what you are doing and your answer is, “I’m working on my project I chose for my Accountability Corner!”
Hip Hip Hooray! Let’s celebrate together!
If you haven’t done anything yet, reward yourself for pondering it and getting closer. Get your needed supplies. Get your ideas. Ask God to help you. He wants you to get your projects finished, too. The way to get them finished is to start doing them. Celebrate your beginning! Celebrate you! You are awesome. You can do it. If you need help brainstorming or want to chat by email about your project, feel free tell me in a comment or  write me at joanyedwards1@gmail.com. I am praying for you! I believe you can do it.
Resources about celebration:
1.  “20 Ways to Celebrate Your Writing Talents:” https://joanyedwards.com/20-ways-to-celebrate-your-writing-talents/
2.
 “155 Ways to Reward Yourself for Reaching Goals:” https://www.developgoodhabits.com/reward-yourself/
3. 
“Celebrate You:” https://www.joanyedwards.com/celebrate-you
4. “Enthusiasm Is the Key to Success:” https://joanyedwards.com/enthusiasm-is-the-key-to-success/
5. “
Focus Your Time and Rewards Your Accomplishments: Especially the Small Ones:” https://joanyedwards.com/focus-your-time-and-reward-your-accomplishments-especially-the-small-ones/

 

Accountability Corner Posts to help you be more accountable to striving towards those projects you’ve put on the back burner.
1. “Accountability Corner”
https://joanyedwards.com/accountability-corner
2. “Accountability Corner – Step 2 – Project Ideas
https://joanyedwards.com/accountability-corner-step-2-project-ideas/
3. “Accountability Corner – Step 3 – Your Weekly Project Plan:”
https://joanyedwards.com/accountability-corner-step-3-your-weekly-project-plan/
Never Give Up
Joan Y. Edwards, Author
Copyright © 2009-2023 Joan Y. Edwards

 Flip Flap Floodle Firebird Book Award Winner Will this little duck’s song save him from Mr. Fox?
Joan’s Elder Care Guide Practical ways to help you and your elder survive.

Subscribe to Joan’s blog for new articles of inspiration, information, and humor. Receive free gifts. Join over 235 subscribers and over 1,916,539 visitors. Thank you.

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