Do not try to make a full assessment or evaluation of your performance or how well you are doing in life or your career when you are not mentally well-rested enough.

Your mind cannot think well when you’re tired. Subsequently, the quality of your thoughts will dramatically decline.

People underestimate how difficult it is to keep a steady track of thoughts stringed together. People have no idea how hard it is to actively think, as opposed to just receive ideas or thoughts without any effort, thoughts that just come to them without necessarily meaning anything or having any bare resemblance to reality or what’s true or factual.

And people have no idea how energy consuming and reward draining the process of directed active goal oriented or driven thinking is.

Nevertheless, they choose the end of the day, when they’re really fatigued and depleted from any kind of energy that could sustain such processes at an adequate or acceptable level enough for you to trust in the validity of the conclusions you reach by exploring your problems through them, and give themselves the green light to comment on every aspect of their lives that they are dissatisfied with.

What do you think the conclusions would look like?

Of course you’d develop a firm belief that you are going through burnout. Of course your conviction of yourself as being depressed beyond help would become unshakable. Of course you’d feel like you’re a joke of an entrepreneur, and be absolutely sure that you’re a failure.

Nothing positive could come out of your mind when it is depleted from energy, when it is in its most fatigued moments, and you just love to pick such moments to think about everything and assess with utmost scrutiny how good you are doing in your life.

Instead of fighting negative thinking, you should instead focus more time and energy on fighting your perpetual state of exhaustion and fatigue.