If you're a person with chronically low energy leading to lack of motivation, but who has also figured out ways to counter this and have actually successfully completed projects that require agency - how do you do it? Itt, pls provide advice.
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Stimulants. Turns out it was ADHD all along and drugs work 🤯
(Obviously not the case for everyone)
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Small morning workout every day except for weekends, 8h of quality sleep (going to bed on schedule), coffee in the morning, having clear goals and a clear plan to achieve them, building habits (basically everything writes about).
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Ask myself the question:
Why am I tired?
Don't immediately go on to the next thing but really get into it. No intellectual answers, only answers from the whole body. Usually we are tired when one part of us is at war with another, unless we've been doing phisycal labor all day.
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Time blocking, business coaching, journaling, meditation, adderall, gamification
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At the end of the day it required a ton of tinkering to make my executive function less of a roller coaster.
Though there are some things with caffeine that I do that could probably be widely applied:
1. Split your caffeine intake into smaller more frequent doses
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Physical fitness and low sugar intake. Lately power yoga (yin and ashtanga flow) really made a huge difference. Yoga gives balance and aerobic workout spikes endorphins.
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