Is this the real reason you’re always tired?
So you work long hours. And too many days without a day off. You're on the go all day long, putting out fires, racing to the next one. Who wouldn't be tired with your schedule?
But near exhaustion is not a natural state of being and it's certainly not a recipe for excellent health or long life.
If you're not getting sufficient take a nap because of your schedule, if there simply isn't sufficient time for take a nap, you need to fix that. Fortunately, there are many ways you can cut your work hours without cutting your returns. In fact, working less can really increase your returns, as it did mine.
If you are self-employed, you can depute more of your work, you can increase your billable rate, and you can butt better clients e.g., those willing to pay more for better service and influential clients who can refer others like themselves. If you're not self-employed, you need to have a talk with your employer about your quick track to burnout, or find a new employer.
If you have sufficient time for take a nap but you're still not getting sufficient, if you have some form of insomnia and there's no medical reason for it, there are also many things you can do. Taking naps, exercising, cutting down on caffeine, listening to "white noise," improving your diet, and avoiding TV before bed, are a few common techniques for improving your ability to get a excellent night's take a nap.
But as a replacement for of looking for techniques to cure insomnia, why not find the cause and eliminate it?
If you've tried everything you can reckon of to get a excellent night's take a nap but you're still always tired, my guess is that you've got too much stress in your life. It might not be caused by something obvious like job loss, wedding ceremony issues, or a medical crisis. It can be something much more subtle.
Let me question you a question. Be honest, you're the only one who will hear the answer.
Are you pleased?
Are you doing what you want to be doing professionally? Is your career going the direction you want it to go? How about your personal life, are things running smoothly there?
Life is supposed to be simple. And fun. If it is not, if it is a struggle, if you're always doing things you don't want to do and pushing to get to the next level, you need to know that this is not the natural order of things.
I don't believe we were place here to struggle. I believe we were place here to explore, to build, and to experience joy. I also believe we were agreed instincts and emotions to guide us. If most of the time we feel excellent about what we're doing, it means we're doing the right things and moving in the right direction. If we feel terrible, it means we are not. When we feel terrible most of the time, we experience stress, insomnia, and burn out. A one way ticket to unhappiness.
In his post, The Power of Unforced Living, the instigator uses the metaphor of a meandering waterway to make the case for following the path of smallest amount resistance. "To resist the natural course – to row against the tide – is exhausting and pointless; those who try only wear themselves out getting nowhere."
Our futures are uncertain, he says. We cannot know where the waterway will take us. "All we can do is keep a vigilant eye for opportunity, relax and delight in the journey".