Not Motivated? 9 Ways to Recover Your Energy

Spring has sprung. What’s that? You’re not motivated? You’ve settled into a rut since the beginning of the new year?

Maybe you need to take a breath, pause, and refresh. Here are…

7 WAYS TO RECOVER YOUR ENERGY

1. Get more sleep at night.

Chances are you just might be tired. Avoid “screens” at night that have the potential of making it difficult to fall asleep. Set your phone, laptop, etc. aside at least an hour before bedtime. If that doesn’t work, try other methods that may help you fall asleep faster and sleep sounder.

2. Move your body more.

I know you probably don’t want to hear it, but exercise—moving your body, working your muscles, working your heart—will help you sleep better at night, rid yourself of stress, and generally make you look better and feel better.

3. Eat a healthy diet.

Yep. Another thing you don’t want to hear, but it’s true. The more sugar, junk food, and super-processed foods you eat, the worse you’re going to feel physically, mentally, and emotionally. All of that will affect how you look and how you feel. 

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.

4. Stop procrastination.
Putting things off creates a mental and emotional situtation that drains your energy. Take aciton. The smallest step forward is still a step forward.

Tackle those things you hate to do. One at a time. One step each day toward completion. When you get it done, the endorphin release is huge!

5. Avoid people who drain your energy. 

You know the ones I mean. They’re constantly complaining or pointing out all the bad things in the world around you. Negativity is soul-sucking. 

6. If you are one of those soul-sucking people, it’s time to change your own attitude.

Norman Vincent Peale said, “Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds. Constantly send out optimism, activating the world around you and bringing back positive results.”

7. If you’re tired because you feel as if you’re getting nowhere, analyze that feeling to see if it’s really true.

Whether that applies to your career or your personal life, think about your discouraging thoughts and feelings. Ask yourself if your feelings are generated by tiredness or by an emotional reaction to something that may have happened. Often if you’re overworked and under-rested, it’s easy to feel hopeless.

8. If you’re overworked, pause and refresh.

Sometimes we all need to stop running in the fast lane of work, kids, family, etc. and take a little time off. See if you can take a vacation day just for you—a day of no responsibilities, doing only what you want to do. 

If you’re the kind of person who needs alone time, a day alone might be what you need to recover your energy and motivation.

9. Work on your Life Plan.

Do you have a Life Plan? Sometimes feeling tired is a disguise for general discontent with one’s life. Are you drifiting through life, at the mercy of whichever the wind blows? Or, do you know exactly what you want out of life? Do you know what you need in order to be at peace, satisfied, and happy? If not, maybe you need to spend some time thinking about this. That’s what I call a Life Plan. Design one. Write it up.

TAKEAWAY TRUTH

Yes, these 9 steps are common sense, but sometimes we have to be reminded of the simple ways to feel better. (That may be why I write posts like this. I’m reminding myself too.)

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