Coaching practices for I Know Exactly What Fills Me Back Up Certain People a Long Walk Making Music but I Always Treat Those as Rewards I Haven't Earned Yet So They Get Squeezed Out and I Run the Whole Week on Empty
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I’m all output and no input lately
- I end every week technically slammed but motivationally empty
- My weeks have quietly filled up with things that leave me hollow and emptied of the few that actually refill me
- My downtime is all screens
- I know exactly what fills me back up
Practices that may help
- Artist dates
A weekly solo outing to do something playful and replenishing — alone, by design.
The Artist’s Way, Made Practical - Protect time for work that matches your genius
Deliberately schedule blocks of genius-type work before filling the rest of the week.
The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni) - Nourishing vs. depleting activities audit
Map your weekly activities into those that restore energy and those that drain it, then intentionally shift the balance.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Made Practical - Fill the well
Deliberately take in sensory, novel experiences so there’s something to draw from.
The Artist’s Way, Made Practical - Design your situation for positive emotion, not just negative avoidance
Situation selection is not only about avoiding what is harmful — it includes actively scheduling what is emotionally nourishing.
Situation Selection, Made Practical - Fierce provision: identify and meet your own needs
Ask yourself what you need right now and take action to supply it — without waiting to be asked.
Fierce Self-Compassion, Made Practical - Pair pages with weekly solitary play (the artist date)
Morning pages drain; the artist date refills — both are needed for the full cycle.
Morning Pages, Made Practical - Energy management from your extraversion score
Calibrate social load and recovery time to your actual extraversion level rather than performing the energy you do not have.
The Big Five Personality Model - Build a sustainable rhythm of effort and recovery
Treat rest as part of the work cycle, not as what is left over.
Sabbath: A Weekly Day of Rest - Run a four-quadrant energy audit
Map your current physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual energy levels honestly before intervening in any one dimension.
The Energy Audit
Related concerns
- When Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy Nourishing Depleting Activities
Map your weekly activities into those that restore energy and those that drain it, then intentionally shift the balance.
Nourishing vs. depleting activities audit
- When Stocks And Flows Manage Inflows Before Outflows
In depleted stocks, restoring an inflow is usually more tractable than eliminating the outflow.
Build the inflow before trying to stop the outflow
- When The Big Five Personality Extraversion And Energy Management
Calibrate social load and recovery time to your actual extraversion level rather than performing the energy you do not have.
Energy management from your extraversion score
- Filling The Well
Deliberately take in sensory, novel experiences so there’s something to draw from.
Fill the well
- How To Refill Creativity
A weekly solo outing to do something playful and replenishing — alone, by design.
Artist dates
- The Artist S Way When Burned Out
Julia Cameron’s method treats creative block as something you clear with daily practice rather than wait out: free-writing three pages every morning, taking a weekly solo "artist date," and recovering a sense of play. The tools are practitioner methods refined over decades of teaching — largely anecdotal, though morning pages overlap with expressive-writing research that does have real support.
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