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dahsar said:
Anyways what works best for you to avoid PEM?
Hi, @dahsar ....
There are loads of threads on PEM related issues .... everyone has a different viewpoint, but the one way that everyone agrees on is: PACING ...
You need to develop a sense of how much you can do, along with the warning signs that alert you to the fact that you're doing, or have done, too much ...
I guess this involves a way to sort of measure your energy reserves before you start doing something that exceeds what you normally do at that point in the day, like deciding to clean out a cupboard in the early afternoon, a time when you know that you're usually running on half a tank, as it were ....
You also need to take into account all the steps in any given effort: cleaning out a kitchen cupboard involves not only the physical clearing out of stuff you don;t think you need anymore, but the mental effort (and mental effort is just as exhausting as physical effort) involved in thinking about what you may not need anymore, and then setting up an organizational system for those items you've cleared out of the cupboard prior to removal.
That's a lot of energy output, a lot more than the simple phrase ".... cleaning out a kitchen cupboard ..." would seem to imply.
I know it's not quite that simple, but that's the best way I could think of putting it...
For me, the warning signs that I've done, or am doing, too much is a sort of haziness that settles over me .... thinking capacity slows, body gets a little unsteady, sort of like being dizzy but without that spinney feeling .... that usually tells me to sit down and reconsider ....
I'm going to start a thread for you on this, because I think it's important to have more than one view. I'll tag you as soon as it's done, and if PR Central does its automatic job, the thread should quickly convert to one that you've opened yourself, and you can follow the responses and input you get pretty easily ...
Anyways what works best for you to avoid PEM?
Hi, @dahsar ....
There are loads of threads on PEM related issues .... everyone has a different viewpoint, but the one way that everyone agrees on is: PACING ...
You need to develop a sense of how much you can do, along with the warning signs that alert you to the fact that you're doing, or have done, too much ...
I guess this involves a way to sort of measure your energy reserves before you start doing something that exceeds what you normally do at that point in the day, like deciding to clean out a cupboard in the early afternoon, a time when you know that you're usually running on half a tank, as it were ....
You also need to take into account all the steps in any given effort: cleaning out a kitchen cupboard involves not only the physical clearing out of stuff you don;t think you need anymore, but the mental effort (and mental effort is just as exhausting as physical effort) involved in thinking about what you may not need anymore, and then setting up an organizational system for those items you've cleared out of the cupboard prior to removal.
That's a lot of energy output, a lot more than the simple phrase ".... cleaning out a kitchen cupboard ..." would seem to imply.
I know it's not quite that simple, but that's the best way I could think of putting it...
For me, the warning signs that I've done, or am doing, too much is a sort of haziness that settles over me .... thinking capacity slows, body gets a little unsteady, sort of like being dizzy but without that spinney feeling .... that usually tells me to sit down and reconsider ....
I'm going to start a thread for you on this, because I think it's important to have more than one view. I'll tag you as soon as it's done, and if PR Central does its automatic job, the thread should quickly convert to one that you've opened yourself, and you can follow the responses and input you get pretty easily ...
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