The reason you didn’t do anything today is because you don’t have something that you can still do that is so easy that it doesn’t make sense to make excuses for not doing it, and still counts as something that can make a difference and move things forward a little bit for you. Find as many things as you can that can fit the above description, and make them available for you to do all the time, and then you won’t feel as trapped.

Make it easier for yourself to make progress. Let there be something that you can always do that can move the needle forward for you a little bit. Something that is not that hard, that doesn’t leave you devastated afterwards.

You may not be able to always do the hardest or the most complex of things or tasks at the moment, but this still does not mean that you should take a few days off until you can. It doesn’t mean that you are currently going through burnout.

You just need to aim lower.

Find something that you cannot have any excuse for not doing it, and make that type of work available for you to do at any time, so that even when you’re not so energetic, you can still make some progress.