A lot of people ask how to generate or maintain ample energy enough for prolonged work that is necessary to reach their goals. There’s something you should understand about energy. It’s not fuel that makes you run longer, that decreases your feelings of tiredness or exhaustion. It’s one of your abilities. It’s something intrinsic within you. It’s part of you, not something that you acquire from the outside world or from external circumstances. It’s not like fuel that makes a machine run. It’s one of the abilities of the machine itself. How long and how strongly this machine can work or run before it can no longer keep being capable of producing the results that are expected from it. It is mental endurance, fitness, stamina, or sustainability of working. Energy is something that you reach by training yourself. It is not something you gain by some external activities that provide you with energy, motivation, or enthusiasm. It is training yourself until you become more able to make your mind work better, harder, and longer. The result of this would be not just an ability to sustain working for prolonged periods of time, but the compulsion to work hard and long enough to avoid going crazy from lack of mental workout or mental exercise. It’s not something random. You don’t wake up someday with tremendous energy but the next day you just happen to wake up feeling drained or exhausted before you even get started. You either have the mental capacity to work that long and that hard, or you don’t. Early fatigability may occur due to many reasons, but you should be aware that it also could occur due to a lack of ability to generate enough energy for heavy tier tasks. Sometimes the reason for waking up tired from the start is that you didn’t rest well enough before beginning the new day. You may have slept yesterday while feeling energetic, but when the new day begins, you feel you are way more tired than you were last night, even after you’ve slept for quite some time, and that shouldn’t surprise you. You didn’t feel that tired last night because the amount of reward you gained from your current day’s victories are maintaining some kind of momentum that convinces you that this is not the right time to feel tired although you are really exhausted, because you just want to work a little bit more, then you’d figure something out concerning how will you recover from such a heavy day. If that amount of energy you had last night is not enough for you to make you able to work for a whole new day, then you’re body will inform you of that kind of incapability from the start by telling you that we’re not going to make it through an entire other day with this low amount of energy remaining. This doesn’t mean that you feeling energetic is a random process, because fatiguing didn’t seem to increase gradually enough. Because fatigue appeared suddenly, it looked to you as if it came to existence randomly or arbitrarily. But your body was holding back expressing how really tired you are to you because now is not the best time to start complaining, because you have no idea how far worse and more exhaustive not getting the reward that is expected to be received or reached from all the effort you’ve exerted to accomplish this task really is, or how far worse and more exhaustive not getting the reward that is hanging on the completion of this task is, and you may not ready to return back to this task later on at the moment, because what you’ve accomplished so far is not enough to give you any amount of reward (enough to keep you normally functioning and in control of yourself until you can continue working on this goal, task, or thing) yet before a certain degree of enough progress through completing this task is reached or achieved. So you would rather hang in there until you finish something, instead of complaining and whining because you’re fatigued, or even instead of feeling tired at all, and so you keep carrying on until you get enough reward that makes it okay to stop for now, and attempt to complete the rest of the task, goal, or thing any time later on. This last minute push is relying upon the momentum of the day, not upon the tiny amount of energy that you possess at that moment. This remaining energy that you had at that last push yesterday may not be enough to keep you working for an entire new day, and so your body declares its inability to even try and start suggesting that you do not stop resting until you are fully recovered. Nothing will be initiated or started until you rest enough and recover. Do not feel bad or frustrated when that takes place. Just listen to your body, and take your time until you fully repair your body, recover, rest, and regenerate your energy.

Physical exercise is important to increase your energy levels.

Brendon Burchard says: I don’t have energy, I generate it. Do not concern yourself with how tired you are. Focus on the task at hand until it is done, then start talking about how fatigued you really are. If you keep following fatigue, you will never get anywhere. You could always feel too tired to do anything. That is really always possible. If you keep addressing your fatigue every time it exists, you will never do anything that increases your fatigue at all, which means you will never accomplish anything at all in your life aside from eating and sleeping all day long. Do not concern yourself with how tired, fatigued, bored, or exhausted you really are at any moment of your life unless it is impossible – really impossible – to continue doing or working on accomplishing or completing the task, goal, or thing that you are doing or working on accomplishing or completing at this moment, regardless of what this task, goal, or thing is.

Focus on getting the task done first, then start worrying about your fatigue status. Unless it is impossible for you at the moment to keep going, do not stop, for any reason whatsoever, until the task is done.

We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. You’ll figure something out concerning how you are going to deal with your extreme tiredness that you are left with after the work is over.

“This is what happens when a society is marked by Godlessness. It makes no sense. There is no moral standard. There is no cohesive, comprehensive, logical ethic of the body. It has no idea what is right and what is wrong. Science even starts to become subjective. It starts to bow to the God of self, rather than to the God of scripture, and you have chaos. And this is why Christians should not give in. This is why we have to care about what goes on politically, and why conservatives can’t give up on the social and the cultural stuff, because it matters. It is all connected. And this is why yet again it is so hard if not completely impossible for someone with a biblical worldview, with a Christian ethic, to also be on the left side of the isle. That is not saying that God is going to ask you whether you’re on the left or the right when you get to heaven, I’m not saying that this is the standard for salvation, of course not. Jesus has reached that standard on our behalf, and God transcends politics, but I’m saying if you want a worldview that makes any sense whatsoever, you can’t be on the left and a Christian at the same time. You can’t. You can’t believe even a word of genesis if you’re going to be a Leftist. That God made them male and female and that he created one man for one woman, and that is supposed to be the exclusive context of sex. You can’t believe any of that if you’re going to be a Leftist these days. You just can’t. That’s why it’s impossible.” ~ Allie Beth Stuckey

“This is also why, by the way, it has become impossible to be a Leftist and a Christian. You cannot call yourself a proper Leftist if you believe in this biblical definition of marriage, sex, gender, and Sexuality. You just can’t. You have to pick one. This is also why Christians, um, the time has come and gone for us to be able to separate politics from the rest of our lives. We can’t be apathetic anymore. We can’t be shy about it. We can’t be quiet about this. We can’t refuse to talk about the so-called controversy of social or cultural issues, because they’re awkward for us to discuss, and they might hurt people’s feelings. We can’t avoid this anymore.” ~ Allie Beth Stuckey

The only thing that could make regret go away is making what you regret happening not possible to happen again to you. Learn the lesson, or it will haunt you for the rest of your life.

Don’t leave your To-do list empty, regardless of how full your calendar is. Even if you schedule all the tasks that you are supposed to take care of this week in your calendar, do not leave your To-do list empty. It’s okay if the same item is found in both locations (both in your calendar and your To-do list). Even if your calendar contains all the information and details that are essential to get everything you are supposed to handle this day, week, month, or several months, done without the necessity of reviewing any explanation elsewhere to get the idea of what’s going on, your To-do list should act as a separate source that also contains all the information and details about everything that you are supposed to deal with in the current day, week, month, or several months.

Increase the dose/amount of the productive tasks you are supposed to accomplish within a day. Many times you find that you are not willing to exert any effort doing something that you consider to be the work of the day. There could be many reasons for that. But don’t be surprised to find that the reason for such unexplained procrastination may be that the task is, the daily productive tasks are, or the day’s work tasks are not big enough. That is, the outcome of completing all the productive tasks of the day will feel like not enough to get you anywhere. When aiming at something, very likely you will not unconsciously evaluate how motivated toward it you are supposed to be based upon the amount of energy and effort that you are expected to exert in the process of accomplishing this given task, but whether or not the task is worth aiming for in the first place, and the task being not worth it is not necessarily because it does not provide you or anyone in the world with enough value, but the task might not be worth it because it will not get you closer enough – if that is your daily rate of achievement – toward overcoming the current obstacles standing between you and reaching the conditions that are optimum for you to reach peak productivity and performance without worrying about anything else related to your survival or coverage of your needs. In this case, increasing the dose or amount of what you are supposed to finish a day might help. That is, you might be discouraged to produce 5 pieces of content a day, because this rate will get you nowhere for a long time, but if you increase that rate to 25 pieces of content for example, you might find yourself more motivated to exert effort toward such bigger target, because in the long run, you will notice that this rate is getting you toward getting out of your current special situation or unfavorable circumstances significantly faster, and that will make the accomplishment rewarding enough for you to not feel you’re being drained along the way until you reach a place where things are starting to feel a little different and a little above zero in how empty your life is, how you feel like you’re talking to an empty room, still stuck in unfavorable conditions, or unable to have access to what is necessary to satisfy most of your needs.

After you have fun, you usually desire to jump immediately to doing something productive. Failure to find something productive within a few seconds from terminating your having fun session might be frustrating enough to make all the feeling good and ready for more work state that you reach after a having fun session disappear as if you didn’t have fun at all in the first place, which leads to sucking the reward out of the effort that you’ve put into reaching that state, and that waste of reward may be enough to trigger a depressive episode. When what you consider to be productive is already determined and scheduled on your calendar, going through any of this frustration will not be inevitable. You just want the productive tasks that will make a difference and get you closer to your goals that you’re supposed to do today clearly stated, determined, defined, and decided. When you become too tired to get those tasks over with, you’ll then consider having fun one way or the other. That’s why you should put the tasks that will make a difference in your life, success, solving your problems, and reaching your goals, and the tasks that are considered by you to be the most important and productive tasks that you should do today on your calendar under the tasks of today’s date anyway, even if you are too tired or not in the mood or not ready to do them at all today.

Upon further assessment and after ample and heavy research, it turned out that I belong more to the Left than to the Right. I am now a Progressive, Social/Modern Liberal, Social Democrat, and Center Left Wing politically. That wasn’t due to a sudden shift in my political beliefs and stances. It is more of an understanding of what political terms best describe the political ideologies, identities, stances, and policies I’m most in favor of. Earlier I identified myself as a Classical Liberal, which made me lie on the center right wing of the political spectrum by default, but I no longer hold this position, because Classical Liberalism does not describe me politically accurately enough, and that has been a source of struggle and stress for me for a long time, because it made me seem in disagreement with a lot of people who I’m totally agreeing with on most political topics, and seem to belong to a group or belong among types of people who I totally don’t identify with in any way. I was certainly stuck in a position that I didn’t have because I didn’t know the labels and sides that I really belong to. The problem is that I thought that I disagree with who I really should be classified with on other topics and matters that I mistakenly thought belonging to their side definitely entails. But on researching these topics a little further, I noticed that there are dramatic differences between several ideologies that still fall under the same side of the political spectrum, which has enabled me to make my recent political leap, which is in fact, a political identity correction. One of the main reasons of my former reluctance to announce myself as anything but Right Wing although I was never a Conservative was that I always associated the left with an attempt or tendency toward diminishing Capitalism and advocating for fully replacing Capitalism with Socialism, Communism, or Marxism, and that anyone on the left had some degree of preference to that kind of full replacement one way or the other, although the majority of people on the left would rather settle for some kind of diluted form of Socialism, Communism, or Marxism.