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.