#208 Ich fühle mich so antriebslos.

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Hallo und ganz herzlich willkommen bei Deutsch Podcast. Mal wieder eine neue Folge zu einem, wie wir finden, wichtigen Thema. We are both German learners. Sandra has also started a bit slower and that fits, I believe, very well to our topic. I already gähne, for those who don't see us.

Now, just in the winter, we are in the winter, we have already our Flauschipullis on, there you feel sometimes just so tired, tired, tired, tired, tired, tired, tired. Demotiviert. Planungslos. Oh, das ist auch gut. Planungslos. Wie geht es dir? Du arbeitest ja auch viel.

Wie geht es dir, wenn du dann so nach so einem anstrengenden Arbeitstag, auch einem guten anstrengenden Arbeitstag, also wir arbeiten ja beide auch gerne und dann, was machst du am Abend? To be honest, I set myself in the kitchen and then I eat something. Meistens tagsüber das etwas vernachlässige. Uh, das ist nicht so gut, ja. Und dann esse ich etwas, dann...

I often go into the sauna and then I'm so flat that I also put myself in there. I would like to read a little bit, yesterday I have also read it, but just so... Anderthalb Seiten. Ja, aber platt kann ich auch echt verstehen. Das ist so ein schönes Wort. Ich fühle mich platt. Yeah. With the entrylessness I thought that it's not so that I'm just tired. It's a feeling of hatred. Yeah.

I don't know if that's right now, when the holidays are over, the vacation is over, the everyday life is over, also the work, even if it makes a lot of fun, but what then? morgens oder nach der Arbeit, am Wochenende? Ja, ich bin ja so ein Typ, ich habe morgens immer richtig viel Energie. Also du bist ja auch so ein Morgenmensch, wenn ich das richtig erinnere.

And I make my yoga and I have the whole day full of plans. And often is it so that I say oh and when I'm at home home, then I'll do that, that, that. Or I'll do this book. Yeah, and at the end I sit in front of the TV. And then, yeah, really, that's a lot. That's I think, yeah. And then comes the coolest thing. Yeah, then I'll do it tomorrow. Yeah. Exactly. For me, because I work from home, I have to plan a little bit in my head these pauses. ... ... ... ... ... I can't planlessly...

but I have to say, today I set myself up for two hours, then I make a coffee pause. It has to be much more aware. hause arbeitest kannst du wirklich du kannst ja einfach da sein und nichts machen und das ist also wirklich gift ja das finde ich auch I work for a while not at home. And I must say that I really like it. I was really surprised how good I find that I have this Trennung from that is my job. And now I come here in and that's not my job.

Also wo man sagt, da ist jetzt mein Arbeitszimmer oder das ist mein Arbeitsumfeld oder wie auch immer. Es gibt ja nicht, nicht jeder hat ein Arbeitszimmer, aber hat dann so einen Bereich vielleicht. Und das finde ich total wichtig. Ja. And it also makes me very, very much fun. I have to say that I work very much from home. My work is really a great job.

And then, also that this Antriebslessness is also a different topic, because the children are not at home anymore, or with one foot was the youngest daughter is still there. You have to structure things new, find things, what do I do when... Oh, that's beautiful. Was ich total oft merke, also zum Thema Antriebslosigkeit ist zum Beispiel am Wochenende. Also ich freue mich dann auf mein freies Wochenende und dann nehme ich mir auch total viele Sachen vor, was ich so Schönes machen könnte.

And very often do I do that. And then I ask myself, what did I actually do? Then I asked myself, or halbherzig is also a nice word. Halbherzig, here a little bit of something, there a little bit of something. Aber so richtig in Schwung komme ich da nicht. Und dann ist das Wochenende vorbei. Und dann denke ich mir ... What have you actually done? Yeah, but for example, yesterday was a good example. I was very tired, super tired. And, well, I was very tired. But my husband had...

How would it be a round of applause? A clever man. Yes. He took me with me, in the car I sat again with him. I didn't want to. I felt really tired. But this fresh air movement, it looked like a wonder. I was so... like... Ich glaube, das ist auch dieses, dann sagt man auch manchmal im Deutschen, man muss seinen inneren Schweinehund überwinden. Also das, wo man sich so gerade so einigelt, einmuckelt, dass man sagt, nein, jetzt gehe ich aber raus.

Or you need to get the Tritt in the Allerwertest. There is another word we say here, but not. So that you get a Tritt in the Poe. So, yes, is now good. I think that this...

Alltägliche Antriebslosigkeit auf gar keinen Fall verwechseln darf mit Menschen, die diese Antriebslosigkeit aus psychischen Gründen haben. There is sometimes so that people don't understand that if there are people who have depression and say I can't get out and I can't get out and get out and say yes they have to get out and get out and get out. That works not, but we are talking about this everyday activity.

And maybe, I would say to the debate, maybe even a healthy person. Because sometimes our body says, let's do it. Yes. That was a very good point. when you are free and when it is on a longer time. When is it a serious disease? When will you get sick? Yeah, that's the answer. I don't have to answer that. But yeah, and also we're talking about the moment.

whether it's one hour or two hours, and then you find something again that you do, and that you do, and that you do, and then you are again inside. momentan, or how do I say it, so little pauses, which are perhaps not so bad. Yeah, we will also add to that. Genau, wo man einfach mal so keinen Bock hat. Das kennen bestimmt auch manche natürlich auch vom Berufsleben oder es gibt es in allen Situationen eigentlich auch Dinge, die uns so grundsätzlich Spaß machen.

can still, or the we also want to make, can still, or can at a point Viel Spaß beim Transkribieren, sage ich an der Stelle. Also die können trotzdem dazu führen, dass man trotzdem auch mal auf diese Sache keine Lust hat oder sich halt so energielos fühlt in einem Motivationstief. Ja, auch darüber kann man sprechen und den Wortschatz sammeln. Kommentieren, also seid ihr mal antriebslos und was macht ihr dann? Was hilft vielleicht?

Genau. Wir sprechen noch ein bisschen in unserer Premium-Folge genauer darüber, wie uns das ganz konkret, aber tatsächlich auch mit diesem Podcast geht, wo wir auch eigentlich eine Sache machen, die wir wirklich gerne machen und da aber auch mal. That's not true. That's not true. But that's also not always, when we turn these episodes or just after this summer, we came to a point where we asked ourselves to be honest.

Also was wollen wir? Wollen wir das? Genau, also weil das ja schon auch ein Projekt ist, das zeitintensiv ist, mit dem wir ehrlich gesagt noch nicht reich und berühmt geworden sind. Exactly, that's true. I say always, it's a bad job. Yes, so is it. And since we both have our professional ways... very changed. But more in the Premium-Folge. Where do you find the Premium-Folge? You'll find it exclusively if you want to support this project. All the info in the Show Notes.

And then we say, but not motivated, but motivated, I would say. See you next time.