| There are a few things, not one: | | | | 4. I looked at nature and realised there's a benefit |
| 1. I realised that running on 100% is totally | | | | in cycles. In the up cycle my energy is my |
| unforgiving and unsustainable. Bouts of 100% | | | | energy, but in the down, my energy seems to be |
| were actually bouts of 110% and 90's or even | | | | not my own. In these few days of tiredness and |
| 80's came around all too quickly. In other words I | | | | less than 110% energy, I was really honest, really |
| was setting myself up for burn out. This was a | | | | aware of my visions but not with ambition. It is |
| big realisation and when I discovered in a | | | | recuperation time and a time to put earth |
| magnificent text the phrase, "never give 100%" I | | | | beneath my feet. (be grounded in reality) It's a |
| realised that my model for hard work was | | | | time of incredible perspective. |
| screwed. | | | | So, The bottom line is as First Nation Peoples of |
| 2. The next awakening was that women have | | | | North America call it, Moon time which for them, |
| cycles, nature has cycles, governments have | | | | is a highly sacred time in a person's cycle. They |
| cycles, so, I had to accept that I have cycles. So, | | | | apply this to women but in the reservations I've |
| I set my output and presence in life at a level | | | | worked in, have yet to be quite so |
| that could include cycles. In other words, even my | | | | compassionate toward the men of their |
| lowest cycle was great productivity. | | | | communities. |
| 3. The third is very personal. When those down | | | | Guys, we have cycles. Ours are not always tied |
| cycles used to arrive, I'd always self destruct, | | | | to the moon, and are not always regular like 28 |
| going into some state of fear that the cycle | | | | days apart, but we have them. Down cycles and |
| downward would have no end. I'd be imagining the | | | | in those down cycles, our energy is less, our drive |
| worst case scenarios about where this tiredness | | | | is less and our bravado disappears. It's in these |
| could take me: cancer, depression, chronic fatigue. | | | | down cycles that reality bites us, we are not |
| Then I'd imagine my clients, partner and children | | | | what we do, what we own, what we have or |
| leaving me because I wasn't being 110% up. After | | | | who we are with... It's hard to imagine that a few |
| two days, I'd be exhausted from worry about | | | | days here and there feeling a bit overwhelmed |
| being exhausted. Instead, I decided to embrace | | | | and uninspired could have such a profoundly |
| my downcyles, and just let myself be me and | | | | important value, connecting us to our true nature, |
| with that strategy, those down cycles lasted | | | | falling into the arms of nature, letting go and just |
| shorter and shorter. | | | | being. |