When you are tired and lacking energy, it is understandable that you cannot get yourself to do productive stuff. Brain needs fuel to focus, process (good) decisions and take action.
If you constantly find yourself lacking energy you are neglecting one (or both) of the two curcial factors:
- How much energy you are supplying to your brain
- How much energy you spend
Let’s briefly explain how energy is supplied to your brain:
When you are so tired that you cannot get yourself to do anything, your main priority is to recharge yourself with energy. If your car is low on gas, no repairs, cleaning or anything else will make it run again until you refuel it.
This is what you must understand about re-fueling your body and brain
- When you eat a food, your stomach will extract nutrients and send them into cells in your body and brain. The more nutrients your food has, the more fuel will be sent to your brain.
- Just having the fuel in your brain is not enough. You also need to burn the fuel for it to have effect. And you burn things by adding oxygen.
You get more oxygen by breathing the air. Simple huh? If you just sit and breathe, oxygen will be absorbed by your lungs and be sent via blood vessels to your brain to burn the fuel. But if you start moving your body, your breathing will increase, also your blood flow from lungs to brain will be faster.
How energy is spent
Every thought, decision or action will burn your reserve of mental energy. If you are also feeling unpleasant emotions, this will make you think about them and burn even more energy.
If your mind is constntly racing, worrying and calculating your decisions, your mental energy will be drained extremely quickly, regardless of how good you eat and exercise.
It is like carrying the backpack full of useless rocks when you go for a walk. Of course the walk (task) will be much harder to do and you will quickly become tired, not feeling like going on with the task.
Calm mind will make you spend only the necessary amount of energy. When doing your job or any task with calm mind, you will notice you have much more energy in afternoon for your hobbies, side projects and excercise.
Because calm mind makes tasks require less effort (energy), it automatically makes tasks easier to begin with. Calm mind is the pillar of high energy, focus and good mood.
