How do you fill your cup?

Posts: 3 · Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Washington

When I come home after a hard day of work I enjoy cuddling with my dog. Pets are amazing!! Most often though I do not leave work needing my cup filled. I work in Labor and Delivery and after a long hard day of I sit in a chair and hold a baby "the miracle of life", how refreshing.

Posts: 8 · Joined: 27 Mar 2006 Posts: 8 Location: philadelphia PA USA

What a great question, i was just talking about this with a friend of mine. maintaining friendships and family relationships that i care about are very important, also just some quiet down time where i can "zone out", read a book, watch tv or play around on the computer are helpful.
I also write in a journal and try to meditate for just 5 minutes a day but I have been slacking in that area.
One of the things that i am very bad at is that i let a lot of my personal responsibilities go, like paying bills on time and cleaning my house, these are areas that i need to work on so i can be more responsible, balanced and have less anxiety. I have always been the kind of person who is good in a crisis but becomes easily bored with the day to day routines of life.
As for the person who mentioned that they take their work home with them, i too, am guilty of that but it has gotten a lot better over the years. Let's face it, as nurses we are caregivers, that is our job but if we don't fill our own cup up then we have nothing left to give. This is a very important topic for all of us

Posts: 24 · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 24 Location: Minneapolis

I guess what I do kind of tends to vary on the shift I'm working and the time of year, and now it'll depend where i'm at as a traveler. I'm working straight nights right now, so I tend to spend a little bit of time reading and just spending time with my cats in the morning when I get home and I will occasionally talk to my mom or sister for a few minutes. Over the last 5 months now I've had a new way to 'fill my cup' as i get to enjoy my first nephew, so i can call my sister and hear him and about the new stuff he's done in the last couple of days. other than that, there's the obvious, i have several craft projects going at a time either a blanket or cross-stitching. And I'm still going to school so I can try to switch gears into that for awhile. Talking to my friends who are nurses makes a big difference in venting cuz they know exactly what i mean when i'm frustrated! And if I start to forget why I love my job, I remember a couple of patients I've had in the last 3 years that would make anybody love nursing!

Posts: 7 · Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 7 Location: OH

Yes paying my bills on time is an issue for me sometimes, but I think it's just because I just want to veg when I get off work for so many days, any suggestions to how I can keep up on maintaining my good credit score. I was thinking of online banking, but the bottom line is who really fills like paying bills after we do the work that we do day after day?

Posts: 223 · Joined: 26 Feb 2005 Posts: 223

The only way to fix this is to set up a budget and automate paying your bills. I seldom think about my paying my bills anymore because I let the computer at my bank do it, and I only write one check per month. Leave's me lots of time to do other things . . .

Same thing about cleaning your house. Pay someone to do it for you and stop feeling guilty about it. Life is too short to spend it cleaning your house. Spend your days off doing the things that you really enjoy.

Posts: 61 · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 61 Location: Florida

How do I fill my cup? Sometimes that is rather difficult, I admit. Honestlly I am an avid gamer. It helps me to be off somewhere absorbed in solving pusles or battaling other online players. It is rather difficult to dwell on how many BSC's you emptied today when someone is chasing you with a shotgun.
Chasing someone else with one is good relief for all the political stuff that comes with this job too. When I need to dwell on the codes, as I think we all do from time to time, I find spending time alone to be consoling.

Posts: 7 · Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 7 Location: OH

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