The less exhausted you try to be, the more you will be.

Decreasing the amount of work that you do on a daily basis is not the answer.

You’ll burnout more from not doing something valuable and productive than from doing it.

Regeneration is a process that requires heavy mental workout. It cannot happen without your mind working hard to accomplish that objective (of regaining your energy and strength).

Only through the momentum and warming up that you get or gain from exercising yourself heavily mentally or physically will you be able to do that holistic regenerative approach to your entire body that makes you able to take out anything again after the regeneration process is fully over. Productivity is not a luxury. It’s essential for your fulfillment, happiness, energy, and well-being. You need to exhaust yourself to your fullest potential in order to be able to fully recover and regenerate. You cannot bypass that. And if you try to, you’ll get a perpetual sense of fatigue or chronic fatigue all the time, even if you are doing nothing heavy or hard at all, or even if you’re slacking off all day long.

Easier is not always better. Sometimes the easier life is harder. Sometimes less is more, and I’m not referring to doing less work and feeling satisfied regardless despite being less productive. I’m using your own rule against you. Sometimes being less productive is more exhausting. Sometimes not doing as much is harder and less fulfilling. Sometimes holding yourself back is harder and more energy demanding. Sometimes working less renders you more tired all the time. Sometimes decreasing your productivity in the name of abolishing perfectionism is the reason you feel fatigued, less energetic, miserable, angry, frustrated, trapped, stuck, put down, held back, repressed, under attack, self-loathing, and/or unfulfilled all the time. Doing less is bad. There are no exceptions. Working until satisfied and fulfilled is the answer. At least that is true for creative, extraordinary, or genius individuals or people only.

Let that sink in.

People seem to understand this when it comes to working out in the gym, where they have no fear of exhausting themselves in the gym exercising their bodies to their maximum capacities, without worrying how are they going to come back from that or recover enough to be able to do the minimum physical tasks that they inevitably will be required to do throughout their days later on.

They don’t sleep the rest of the day just because they ran for 20 minutes.

Nevertheless, they feel that their life is generally far easier, and their excitement about life in general is way greater. Like someone solved all their problems for them, or whatever their problems are, they can handle it, or they no longer are as distressed because of them as they would be in case they chose to conserve their energy and not exercise today.

I understand that you shouldn’t push it too much and keep running for two hours or six hours like there’s no tomorrow. I understand that they can become too tired to do anything because of that for quite some time later on. But that doesn’t mean that they are better off not exercising at all in the first place.

It’s like the abundance mentality when it comes to money. It might not necessarily make you rich overnight, but you cannot become rich without it. A scarcity mindset will only get you so far, and is likely to keep you poor indefinitely, not necessarily because it’s the only reason for your poverty or because it’s all your fault, but because it’s a significant contributing factor to your poverty that keeps you stuck in that state of poverty regardless of the options available to you that have the potential of getting you out of it.

There’s also a scarcity mindset when it comes to your energy. At least if you’re not too old to blame your lack of energy on your mindset alone.

That scarcity of energy mindset will lead you to conserve when it comes to spending energy, leading you to adapting to not producing as much energy from the start, which would eventually lead to you feeling tired all the time before you do anything that day or even before getting started. The problem is that your batteries are fully charged, but their maximum capacity is too low to get you through any taxing or highly energy demanding task or project you can suggest carrying out today. Whatever that you’ll try to do, will deplete your energy stores, in no time, so why bother trying, and hence chronic laziness or reluctance to attempt being productive at all in the first place.

When your body understands that when it produces ample energy today you are going to use it wisely and put it in the right place, it will have no problem with producing that amount of energy for you at all. It will consider it to be something exhilarating, refreshing, exciting, and worth the effort. And it will happily provide you with that enough energy, especially if you promised it with enjoying yourself and having fun afterwards all you want until fatigued or bored, and you always honor your commitments. I understand that sometimes you need to muster your energy to do stuff against your will the Mel Robbins push yourself even if you don’t feel like it style, but that should not be expected to be all there is. There are other times when you are supposed to feel you can take out any heavy or difficult task, goal, or project there is, but your only problem is that due to some rule or reason you come up with, you are considering such an option to be unavailable for you. I should be trying to grow on TikTok now because it’s real estate, so you postpone writing your next masterpiece novel for no reason other than getting your share of the loot that is going on right now on TikTok for example, so you put your imagination and real deal creative and productive powers in the fridge indefinitely until something happens or until you hit 2 million followers or something. No wonder why you feel miserable during that journey, and you’re blaming it on the fact that vanity metrics and the number of followers are things that don’t matter and don’t bring you fulfillment, when deep down you know that this is not true, and your problems run way deeper than that. You are a starving artist or writer, and you are showing no intention of ending that state of starvation any time soon. How abundant you expect your energy levels to be like during that period?

Most of the time your struggles with energy or burnout are not because you’re doing too much, but because you’re doing too little.