102 P E R S ON A L G R OU N DWO R K F O R C OAC H I N G • He always runs late. You just wait, he’ll come in the door panting and looking frantic and full of apologies in about 10 minutes. • He’s always so busy. I never see him take a minute to just shoot the breeze or enjoy life. That guy is always on the go, go, go! • Oh, you can always count on her to pull it out at the last minute. She thrives under pressure. • We knew we could count on him to handle this mess. He loves this kind of stuff! • Why does she always put herself under that much pressure? • There he is again dipping into that drawer full of sugar bombs! He’ll be bouncing off the walls in about 5 minutes. • I don’t know how she does it. Her schedule would have me in the hospital within a week! Most of the time Busy people set up the scenarios that will trigger the fight-orflight response just to get a “fix”. They do this by leaving an open door to attract or invite stressful situations that involve a high degree of effort and attention. Instead of strategizing ways to reduce or eliminate the number of things to do, places to go and people to see, they seek it out and succumb to it quickly, accepting it as an uncontrollable fact of life that one just has to endure. Until the Busy person makes a conscious choice to give up this energy source they will remain in the continuous loop. Usually until they crash. ADRENALINE SOURCE #2: DRAMA Another popular costly energy source is drama. Many times, we will create or amplify the drama in our lives which stirs up all kinds of adrenaline. With drama we can bring about passion, adventure, tension, and many more emotional responses that get our blood flowing. Drama people are always on the scent of a good drama. They tend to thrive not only on the emotional response from themselves, but also the emotional response from others. Drama people like a big cast in the drama, the more the merrier. If they get enough people involved, they can have an epic drama! Drama can be a very costly energy source. Creating, staging, and perpetuating the drama takes a lot of energy to begin with but once things are rolling the energetic payoff comes. Most of us like a little drama in our lives, but this particular energy source can be very seductive and can get us in a “habit” of using it frequently. How do you know when you are using drama adrenaline as an energy source? Here are some things others may say about a drama person:
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