Doldrums

Doldrums are situations where your wind has left you and all you have left to do are the maintenance things that get neglected while you are in motion.

These get neglected because your day to day activity pushes these lower priority tasks to the bottom of your to do list every day. This happens for a variety of reasons

• You really are too busy
• You really aren’t good at a particular task
• Your task list is too big
• Your own self is in the way

For me, getting in my own way is classic. When I ran my game store in the 90’s my emotional state, energy level, and overall self image was directly impacted by things like my daily sales, customer interactions, and amount of money I spent as a business to keep afloat.

I’m still like that, but I am at least aware of the problem. And it is a problem.