We all know how busy we are. There are obligations to work, obligations family (spouse AND kids, sheesh! 
) then there are the obligations of watching our favouraute TV shows (admit it, you’ve never said “I can’t miss that?”) to having the obligatory drink on a Friday night after work. This list goes on.
I’ve come up with a term that, to me, describes life most of the time:
“the swarm of life”.
I got the idea from the humble bee. When there’s a swarm of bees nearby you can’t always see them but you can hear them. That hum, drone, buzzing at different frequencies that let’s you know they are around but you do bugger all about it.
And life can be like that. It’s all around you, sometimes annoyingly so but you can do bugger all about it. Or pehaps we only think we can do little about it.
The swarm. (say it with me as you listen for that sound in your mind - swarm!) See, it works!
So how do we deal with it?
I actually think exercising, expending energy is one of the best ways. Get outside, got for a run, a walk, a swim - whatever and you begin to better manage the swarm of life.
Another way is to get the rest you need. But in this day and age a real, proper rest can be hard to come by.
And then over at 43 Folders I found this. Basically a “How To” on … napping! We have instructions on how to rest. Is this what we’ve come to? I have to “learn” how to lie down and catch 40 winks!
The sad thing is, I think the answer for many people is “yes” you do have to (re)learn how to recuperate. The article makes some great points and offers some suggestions on how to get into napping properly.
Steve Pavlina did a year (I think) using a method called polyphasic sleep. He has a good account of it here. And it incorporates napping throughout a 24 hour period but never sleeping for the mandatory 8 hours. Interesting and certainly out of the box.
So, with everything going on around us and the “swarm of life” sometimes invading our lives a little too much can napping be a solution to the fatigue we can sometimes feel? I know some companies (the larger corporates) have tried allowing for naps during the day (I have to research that and get specific examples but being in HR I hear of these things.) Shpuld we bne incorporating small rest periods into our day? If we did, could we do it? Or would we feel that we just couldn’t and immediately get up and continue working?
How’s your swarm going? Under control?
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