Can you be exhausted and rejuvenated at the same time?

On Friday, someone tagged us in an IG story. It was her at the airport, traveling back to Seattle from Salesgirl Summit.  

“Is there such thing as exhasuejuvinated?”

Exhausted: very tired.

Rejuvenated: to give new vigor to.

Exhausted AND rejuvenated. 

Do y’all know what I’m talking about? 

I was prepared to go non-verbal after hosting the biggest event in our company’s history last week and ironically I have more to say than ever?

I’m so tired and also where’s my laptop?

What is this sorcery? 

Turns out, I CAN beat the witch allegations because it’a actually science. 

Newton’s Law states that, “an object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion.”

I don’t know much about physics, but I do know these two things:

#1. I know that a ball rolling down a hill is hard to stop.

#2. I know that doing nothing makes me a lot more tired than doing something. 

Have you ever had a day where you just decided to rot? You will become one with the couch and watch all 3 seasons of Bridgerton and that will be the end of it.

And when it comes time to move from the sofa to the bed, somehow you’re still exhausted. I may have bed sores AND I need a nap. How can it be? Easy.

An object at rest stays at rest.

The best news is that it works the other way too.

I can’t be the only one who squeezes in a quick workout and then randomly deep cleans the kitchen?

Like these Cheeto crumbs did not bother me before and suddenly I can’t look at them for another second?

It’s not because the breakfast dishes in the sink are dirtier than they were when you went for the jog, it’s because the body is in motion. 

An object in motion stays in motion.

When exhaustion and rejuvenation are fighting for the spotlight - always do whatever you can to let rejuvenation take the wheel.

We could take this week off. Kick our feet up and celebrate all the hard work that was done to host the live event… Because there was certainly a lot of it! Yay!

But you know what’s way worse than working hard?

A lot of things, but especially doing the work that it takes to gain speed and then not doing anything with it.

The worst thing you can do after a week, or day, or hour filled with momentum is to force yourself to stop the ball from rolling down the hill. 

Once you get started, keeping on going is the easy part.

Xo, The Salesgirls