Stressing for Fun
When you leave a high stress job and find yourself in your element, doing what you were meant to do, you may find yourself manifesting stress.
Being in finance means that you never get to share “good news” when revenues are up. But when profits are greater than projected, the news isn’t received with cheers and pats on the back, it’s business as usual. When “good news” becomes expected news, then you become synonymous with bad news, leaving you feeling tired, anxious, and full of the negative adrenaline rush that comes with it.
Since I’ve begun my journey with Breakaway, I’ve woken up early filled with ideas, promise, bursts of creativity, and an appreciation for fellow entrepreneurs. With all those feel good feels running through my body, I noticed I’m beginning to have stress withdrawals (remember, adrenaline is a powerful drug) and find myself creating things to stress about out of nowhere.
Without something to stress about, here is a list of items that have kept me up at night:
Maybe I should cut my hair, quit relying on my long locks as a security blanket. But what if I hate it, it will take me years and years to grow it back….what if I give up on trying half way through….what effect will this have on my marriage. My hair shouldn’t have this large of hold on me, that’s it, I’m cutting it.
Maybe we should move, the kids’ memories of growing up are being built, is this the background I want for their childhood? What if the market crashes again, oh crap, then we are trapped and house poor during their childhood. Well let’s run the numbers and see what’s out there. Wait nope, there are too many variables right now.
Maybe we should go to counseling, there is probably something you’ve wanted to share with me but I just can’t hear it. Am I supporting my family and allowing them the freedom to flourish? What about volunteering at school, I don’t think I have shown up enough….how often are other parents there? Only one way to find out, I’ll sign up for everything.
Maybe I should start taking vitamins. I’m not getting any younger, don’t have the energy like I used to, maybe it’s a late onset food sensitivity. It’s probably because we aren’t eating all organic produce….or produce period. Oh jeez, at minimum I should be composting.
These are all ridiculous brain space wasters and yet all very real, very annoying ways I have expended energy.
I realized that my brain is so used to managing stress and manufacturing solutions that I am creating unnecessary stressful situations that I need to “fix.” This annoying realization made me grin. I know that even though I am manifesting things to stress about, it means that stress is now my choice and is no longer heaped upon me by external circumstances.
Breakaway has allowed me to work with an amazing team, build a business based on joy, help clients reach goals, and encourage others take to take the entrepreneurial leap.
Michelle Löpez
Founder / Advisor
If you manage a business and accounting is giving you the stressies, OR your finance job just isn’t bringing you joy, I would be happy to help ease your stress and allow you the space to worry about your compost heap and PTA. Let’s build books and businesses that allow you to make data driven decisions and maybe then you, too, can just stress for fun.