You can’t have more energy by going conservative about it and spending less energy. You will end up getting exhausted prematurely, and you will find yourself in a perpetual state of fatigue and exhaustion the more you do less. You will only have enough energy to avoid feeling tired all the time through having enough reward, Dopamine, and Serotonin in your body, mind, or system. And that can never take place without you accomplishing more, until it starts to feel good again.
You wouldn’t be able to move without enough reward or Dopamine and Serotonin.
If you are low on reward, Dopamine, or Serotonin, you will spend more energy to do the same thing.
This alone can make you feel exhausted all the time. You either dread doing anything, because no matter how small it is it will deplete you, or you do everything that needs to be done anyway, and you end up infinitely more exhausted than you could’ve ever been if you weren’t in that low energy state.
Again, things don’t need a certain specific and fixed amount of energy. You need energy to get things done. Things don’t take energy from you. Things don’t need energy from you to happen or get done. You need energy to be able to do things. So you saying you don’t have the energy that this thing needs is meaningless. Things don’t take a certain amount of energy from you when you do them. You spend energy to do what is necessary to be able to carry out whatever activities that are necessary to get this thing done or over with. If you have a lot of energy, the thing will take less energy to be accomplished. If you have less energy, the thing, the very same thing, whatever it is, will take a disproportionately higher amount of energy from you in order to be accomplished. If it takes the same amount of energy every single time no matter what, it would be as easy to do when you have one percent energy left for the day as when you are fully rested, charged, and have an abundance of endless energy at the moment.
It may even give you energy, if you had higher energy to begin with or at the start of carrying out that activity or doing the thing. If you have more energy, the thing might end up giving you even more energy rather than taking any energy from you, that is, the more energy you have before doing the thing, the higher the likelihood that the thing is going to increase your energy instead of decreasing your energy. Things don’t take energy from you. You spend energy to get your body and mind to do the steps that are necessary to get that thing done, whatever that thing is.
If you have more reward, Dopamine, or Serotonin in your system, you will be able to access all your abilities, skills, talents, and powers infinitely way more than in case you are low on reward, Dopamine, or Serotonin. In which case, the case where you are low on any of the above, you will need more energy to do any of the above. You will need a ton of endless energy to focus, and to access your higher powers and abilities. You will need ample energy just to get yourself moving. Just to get started. If you are high on any of the above, you will have access to all of the above mentioned abilities and powers to the extent that you will be almost needing to spend zero energy on accessing any of them; any of your powers and abilities. You will then be able to accomplish infinitely way more than in case you have low energy, motivation, reward, Dopamine, or Serotonin, because whatever that needs to be deployed and used by you to get anything done, will always be readily available, making everything infinitely easier to accomplish, because you’re almost spending zero energy in the process. You are not pushing yourself to do anything that needs to be done to reach the intended outcome. You can do stuff. You only need to be pointed in the right direction.
It makes sense after understanding all this to realize that you need to accomplish more, that is, do more, in order to have energy, and then you will be able to accomplish way more, by spending less energy on each activity, and thus avoiding fatigue and burnout altogether. You will end up being more exhausted by doing less. You will end up always way less exhausted by doing more. For a simple reason, you don’t spend energy on the thing. You spend energy to get your body to be able to do the thing. If that energy is already there in abundance, you will find yourself having to spend virtually no energy whatsoever on doing the same hard or challenging thing, no matter what that thing is. In addition, having more reward, Dopamine, or Serotonin in your system or mind and body will make accessing whatever that you need to use in order to get the thing done always possible or available, which will make everything less energy demanding in the first place, because you will have a greater capacity for doing and a much higher ability to do everything, no matter what it is. That is, having the ability to recruit, access, and use all your higher potential, powers, abilities, skills, talents, experience, and knowledge will make everything easier to get done, no matter how hard, complex, or challenging the thing that needs to get done is, because you will then have to spend infinitely less energy to be able to accomplish the thing or to get the thing done. If you’re smarter, it will be easier and less energy demanding for you, and thus you would be able to do more with less energy.
You don’t have a limited supply of energy that gets depleted the more you do things. You have a limited sense of accomplishment, because whatever it is that you manage to do every single day, you still feel like you’ve done nothing.