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What energizes you?

Have you ever consciously stopped to think about where you draw your energy from?

Many of us, I think — just like the battery bunny — are prone to keep going… and going… and going…

Sometimes for too long or until we are too worn out to function.

But whether we are conscientious about maintaining our energy levels or we just go and go until we’re drained, one thing applies to us all: we have to recharge.

So my question for you today is: How do you recharge your battery?

Introvert Energizing

I am an introvert.

On the Myers-Briggs, an INFJ.

So, much like the iconic Greta Garbo line goes: I want to be alone.

When I am depleted, when I need to recharge, when I am on system: overload…

I want to be alone.

I can be alone with a book, alone in my head, or alone in my bed, but the key ‘recharge’ factor for me is alone.

And if I *have* energy and I am looking to utilize that energy in such a way that it increases: give me a [very!] small group of intimates, good conversation, laughter, and a [brief!] time limit.

One-on-one, I’m good.

Real communication, I’m even better.

A happy vibe to boot? I’m awesome.

But put me in a crowd, throw me into rush hour traffic, require me to be around a lot of people all at once — especially when I don’t know them well or like them much — and I.am.EXHAUSTED.

So when I need to recharge, you will not find me having ‘me’ time at a mall or attending a women’s conference or otherwise socializing in public or doing anything in group format.

But give me a quiet space with a good book and nobody but myself for company, and I’m golden.

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What about you?

Are there specific things that appeal to you when you need to recharge?

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This year’s A-to-Z Challenge theme on Temperature’s Rising is Twenty(-six) Questions.

The question I’ve asked and answered above is, What energizes you?

I’d love to read your thoughts below.

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    1. Mrs Fever Post author

      YES! Thank you. I’ll fix that. 🙂

      She actually said she wanted to be LET alone — it’s a misquote. 😉

      As an actress, though, I believe she said “I want to be alone” in a rather dramatic way in the movie Grand Hotel (1932).

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  2. Damimgood

    Well when I need to recharge I may be over 60 and it may be solo but I’ve learned how to take care of my self and it does energize me

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  3. Linda Curry

    I’m with you. I need alone time to re-energise. In fact it requires an effort to be sociable but I enjoy chatting to other regulars at the gym and the pool. Going out for a meal in a large group is only to be tolerated until dessert and then I’m off home. I have improved since my youth when I was terrified to walk into a room with a large group in case no-one talked to me. Reading, writing, watching TV alone (my taste is different to my husband. He is sport, sport, sport), even clothes shopping alone are all delightful ways to recharge.

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  4. missy

    See I am nodding away and totally agreeing with you, but also wondering if that would have been my answer had I not read your post first! Food for thought. I love this idea for the A-Z by the way. Missy x

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    1. Mrs Fever Post author

      Thanks.

      Yes, sometimes when I read something that strikes a familiar chord, that’s the primary “tune” I hear. So J get what you mean. 🙂

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    1. Mrs Fever Post author

      It seems a lot of people feel similarly. I wonder if bloggers — or the type of people who choose to blog — tend to be more introverted on the whole.

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  6. Molly

    I think we are very alike in this regard Feve. I need lots of alone time. Michael is one of the very few people I can be with and still get the right feeling of alone that I need but that is because we are really good at occupying space together and not demanding something of each other all the time

    Molly

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    1. Julie

      The same goes for us Molly. If I need to recharge, I can be with G but no one else.

      Even though I’m an extrovert Feve, I still need me, alone time when I’m done with things and people. Another great Q&A.
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      1. Mrs Fever Post author

        My husband is an extrovert; he gets his energy from being around other people, but he doesn’t necessarily need to have interactions with them. Malls, stadiums, busy eateries, fairs and those kinds of events — he loves to just be AROUND people. But once he’s back home from those kinds of places, he – like you – likes to have down time/alone time.

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  7. Deborah Weber

    I’m an INFJ and strongly introverted, so I’m totally onboard with your observations and preferences. I’m really inspired by beauty, and luckily believe it’s all around, so one of the most energizing things for me is to simply contemplate and appreciate something beautiful – be it flowes, or a beautiful scent, or a beautiful poem or book. My inner well gets filled in the most delightful (at least to me) ways. And how does it get better than that?

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  9. betty

    I love absolute quiet when I need to recharge. And being alone if at all possible. That is hard some days though 🙂 Have fun with the rest of the challenge!

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    1. Mrs Fever Post author

      Quiet is a “must” for me too. I spend my entire working life LISTENING, so in my recharge time I can’t handle noise.

      Thanks for visiting!

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  10. The Dream Girl

    Though I am an ENFP.. I recharge the same way!
    My me time would involve sitting with a book, or colouring Mandala’s with music/podcast, painting my nails or sometimes even sleeping!

    Hopping in from the A-Z community,
    Dream

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  11. windy

    Fishing with my dad restores me………..it’s the fishing and his company, the smack talk about whose fish is bigger and him always asking for something to eat that I have packed (peanut butter and jelly for sure!), fruit, etc…..stuff like that. I love it even more now that he is getting older……. it’s precious time. I can’t wait until the weather warms up just a bit!

    I get your alone time……..it’s good you enjoy being with yourself. 🙂 !!! Sometimes I annoy myself. LOL
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    1. Mrs Fever Post author

      Haha! Well, maybe I don’t annoy myself because I have an overinflated opinion of my own companionship? *laugh*

      It’s so cool that you have a special bonding activity you can do with your dad. I hope you can go fishing together soon. 🙂

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  12. Cassmob

    Many of us seem to recharge with quiet time and a book. I also find looking at the ocean restorative. I’m a borderline E/I and while I can appear comfortable and even buoyant in groups, they have to be people I know. Cocktail parties are anathema to me! Luckily my other half also does quiet and reading so we can be alone together, with the cat.

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    1. Mrs Fever Post author

      I miss having a cat in my lap during reading time!

      And I agree: water – even just being in proximity to bodies of water – is beautifully energizing. 🙂

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  13. Marie Rebelle

    “But give me a quiet space with a good book and nobody but myself for company, and I’m golden.”

    This stopped me, and made me wonder if I have been doing this recharching thing wrong all these years. Crowds and days in the office deplete my energy, but I am never really alone. I am always with my husband, and where we can sit together for hours without talking, I am never really alone. Maybe I should build in some of that for myself…
    ~ Marie xox

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    1. Mrs Fever Post author

      I enjoy spending time in proximity to my husband even when we aren’t “together,” but being all by myself at times is a must; I become physically and emotionally exhausted without dedicated alone time.
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