Anyone else totally demotivated?

[whereismyenergy]

Just looking to have a moan and maybe if anyone has advice or similar issues and any solutions?

I've 48 in the thick of random hormonal changes and trying to get settled but I have worked flat out my whole life and run a successful small business with staff, throughout covid, pregnancy's, babies..

In the last 6 months I literally can't get motivated to do anything, I used to care about my team, the clients, the work get a buzz from the whole thing and have always been passionate about my role.

But now I'm just miserable, I couldn't care less I sit for days just pushing work around, we have new opportunities coming up, new business and my drive and ambition has just shrivelled up and gone?

I don't like this new me, I'm thinking about just selling up and getting any old job, but I don't even have the motivation to do that.

Other areas of my life are good, I go to the gym, exercise, eat well, have great kids and a lovely home, I'm just not feeling work.

Has anyone else had a blip like this? Done something radical and regretted it? I could afford to not do my current job but feel I'll be throwing away a 20 year career for what?

Me. I used to have loads of ideas and enthusiasm. Now I want to do as little as I can. Endlessly dealing with bonkers colleagues doesn't help.

Glad I'm not the only one!

I just feel I've survived so many stops and starts with business I'm not sure I've got it in me to keep powering through!

Hi, I got to this point, I realised I was pretty burned out. Still have nowhere near the same level of energy or drive or motivation that I used to have just to do my job well. I say the same words but they definitely ring more hollow to me and it takes so much energy as feels even more like performing than before. I have a lot of energy and motivation to work with children in my volunteering roles but just feeling pretty burned out. I thought it was because I wasn't exercising enough! (To say nothing of existential dread, and grief at the state of the world....)

I think I've just had enough of the sheer dysfunctionality- the endless talking around issues, the lack of decision making, the underlying tension, pointless meetings. I've realised I can do my job well without sweating my guts out.

I'm going to read up on burnout, do some thinking before I Jack in a perfectly good business.

I'm able to take breaks have holidays etc

It all just seems so pointless, the work not the breaks.