Episode 42: When the Tank Is Empty, Listen. New Ideas Will Emerge

Written By Anne LaFollette

January often comes with pressure to feel motivated, organized, and ready to charge ahead. But what if that’s not the season you’re in?

In this episode, I’m sharing a more honest start to the year. I talk about entering my eighth year of business, navigating caregiving and health challenges, and noticing what happens when energy feels low instead of abundant.

Rather than pushing through exhaustion, this episode explores what it looks like to listen — to your body, your life, and the season you’re in — and how adjusting doesn’t mean quitting. Sometimes, it’s exactly how new ideas and new paths begin to emerge.

If you’ve been feeling behind, unmotivated, or unsure how to start this year, this conversation is for you.

🔑 In This Episode You’ll Learn:

  • Why feeling tired or unmotivated doesn’t mean you’re failing

  • The difference between quitting and adjusting, and why that distinction matters

  • The bigger questions many entrepreneurs quietly ask (and why they’re normal)

  • How listening to your energy can lead to more sustainable creativity

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Anne LaFollette

Entertaining Beautifully offers styling, staging and home decor services in the California Bay Area.  Our styling and home decor approach is simple, elegant, modern and timeless with a focus on table settings, flowers and the overall ambience of events, gatherings and parties from 2-25 people.

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