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Chapter 1: Why are you always tired despite sleeping well?
Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast. I'm your host, Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another podcast episode. And if you're out there and you want to brainwash yourself to be successful, to get into your subconscious, to create the life that you want, to believe in yourself, I just created a video.
It's a lesson that teaches you how to do a morning priming technique that you set up for yourself. And if you want to get that absolutely free, you can go to morningpriming.com. Once again, morningpriming.com. You can download it for free. Today, we're going to be talking about why you're always tired. And let's be real. Sure, there's sleep and there's caffeine and there's nutrition.
There's all of those things. But this episode is not going to be about any of those. Being tired all of the time is is not just about getting enough sleep. You can sleep for eight hours, you can eat healthy, you can drink all the water, and you can still feel completely drained by noon every single day. Why?
Because when you look at exhaustion, it runs deeper than just your bedtime routine, what time you wake up, what you're eating. All of those are important, don't get me wrong, for energy. But it goes much deeper than that. And that's what we're gonna dive into today. We're gonna dive deeper than just sleep and nutrition and caffeine.
Chapter 2: What is mental fatigue and how does it affect you?
And I'm gonna go over four reasons why you are always tired, okay? The first one, mental fatigue. Mental fatigue is the silent energy killer throughout your entire day. Have you ever noticed that sometimes you can have great sleep? You can feel good. You can be, you know, feel like I just got a whole bunch of sleep. Everything's good. Nothing's wrong. I didn't wake up.
The children didn't wake me up. I had all of the great nutrition, I had my coffee, and then just no matter what, still you just don't feel it physically. Like you ever feel completely wiped out even though everything else seems completely perfect? Have you ever felt that maybe it might be mental fatigue? So exhaustion comes from many different forms, but it can also come from decision overload.
Having to constantly be thinking and prepping for what's next. Constant problem solving. All of this information being bombarded by it every single day, all day long. And if you're not 100% sure that mental fatigue is possible, professional chess players can burn around 6,000 calories a day. And all they do... is sit in their chair.
And the reason why is because they're sitting there and they're mentally moving all of the chess pieces and thinking 10 steps ahead. They can burn 6,000 calories a day just by thinking. That's three times more than the average person usually eats in a day. The reason why you want to think of it as kind of like to make it easy is think about your cell phone, right?
You wake up in the morning, you had it plugged in all night, and you're at 100%. Your brain is the exact same way as that battery in your phone. Every thought that you have, every decision that you have to make, every distraction that pulls you away from what you were just doing, all of the multitasking that you're doing, all of that pulls away from your energy reserves.
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Chapter 3: How does decision overload drain your energy?
It drains your battery in some sort of way. And so decision fatigue is really important to look at. Did you know that the average person, I'll just ask you, how many decisions do you think the average person makes in a day? Just say the number out loud to yourself. How many decisions do you think the average person makes in a day? The average person makes about 35,000 decisions per day.
And these can be small choices, they can be big choices. It could be stuff like what to eat, what to wear, how to word an email, when to turn in your car on the way to work, and all of these little tiny decisions add up. If your day is packed with choices and decisions, you're leaking energy constantly. So that's one thing is you're making a lot of decisions possibly.
Chapter 4: Why is overstimulation a problem in modern life?
The next thing you want to think about that happens to deal with this is overstimulation. We consume more information in a day than people did in a month 100 years ago. If you think about All of the information, all of the things trying to pull your energy from Facebook, from Instagram, from TikTok, from YouTube, from Reddit.
Some of you listening to this podcast episode checked your Facebook, your Instagram, your TikTok, your YouTube, and your Reddit before you even brush your teeth. That's crazy. And then you checked your text messages and your emails. Your brain was not designed for all of this. And your brain, just so you know, you're not passively just looking.
You're not just passively like your brain just turns off and you're just scrolling with your phone. No, your brain is actively processing every single moment. So even when you think you're just sitting down and relaxing on the couch by just scrolling, your mind is constantly working.
So it's constantly being bombarded by all of the videos and all of the things that you read and all of the people who are fighting with each other in the comments section. And so how do you fix this? Well, what I would recommend is that you simplify your daily choices.
Plan out your outfits, prep your meals, create routines that are important for you just to reduce as much decision making as possible. I remember reading an article about three years ago that says that Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, only makes about three decisions a day at work. That's it.
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Chapter 5: How can micro breaks help combat tiredness?
He says, I want to make three decisions, but I want them to be the three most important decisions I can make today. And so what I would recommend is how can you have less decisions you have to make? Another thing that will really help you out is start getting used to taking micro breaks throughout the day.
Every 90 minutes or so, step away from all of the screens that you have and give your brain a rest. Just a real quick reset. It's kind of like if you were just to plug your phone back in for five minutes and you get an extra 10%. That's the way you want to think about it. Even if it's just a few minutes of stillness. I recommend... At minimum, doing two minutes of breathing.
Here's a really simple two minutes of breathing. You do four seconds in the nose, eight seconds out of the mouth. So four seconds in, eight seconds out of the mouth. You do that 10 times and you've got about two minutes of breathing. That alone will reset you and make you feel a lot more relaxed and kind of give your brain just the quick rest that it needs.
You don't always have to be connected all the time. I promise you, if you take a five-minute break, the world is not going to crumble. So limit your screen time. Also limit your screen time before bed. The blue light, all of the information overload makes it harder for your brain to slow down and properly recharge as well. So that's the first thing that's really, really big for people.
Chapter 6: What is emotional exhaustion and why does it occur?
I want you to realize it's taking a lot of your energy throughout the day as you have a lot of mental fatigue. The second thing that's taking a lot from you, Emotional exhaustion. Sometimes it's not your body that's tired. It's like... Without this sounding weird and woo-woo, it's like your soul is tired. Like your soul is just like, dude, can you take a break, please? Right?
So it's like emotional exhaustion happens when you're caring too much and you have too much worry. You have too many fears. You have too many limiting beliefs. You have too much responsibility. You have too much pretending that you're fine when you're around other people when you're not. And so when you look at emotional burnout, it can show up in many different ways.
Like it can show up in the feeling of just feeling numb. Like I remember years ago before when I was, last time I was working for someone else, I was like going through the motions and I just felt like numb. Nothing really excited me anymore. I became really pessimistic.
I was just like going through the motions and it felt like the easiest way to describe is it felt like the saturation had been taken out of the world and I was just kind of operating. I was just kind of doing it. And I remember my girlfriend at the time, wife now, was like, hey, you seem different. Like, are you starting to get depressed?
And once I knew that somebody else had seen it, I was like, oof, okay, something's happened and I need to make a change. So maybe you feel numb. Maybe you're constantly irritable. You know, small things just really set you off because maybe you just have no more emotional bandwidth left.
Maybe you're dread like even the simplest, smallest of tasks, like everyday simple responsibilities, like just having to take the trash out feel overwhelming because you're so emotionally spent that even just taking the trash out feels like a lot. So you're so drained internally that it's hard for you to find any energy to do outside in the external world.
So it's like your internal world is so drained They're like, oh my God, I got to take out the trash. I got to do the dishes. Like those types of things just feel like so much for us to do. And so, you know, common causes of where this comes from, if you're a really big people pleaser, if you're constantly putting other people first, you deplete all of your own emotional reserves.
Well, yeah, that's going to drain you a lot. If you have a lot of emotions, grief, anger, sadness that you haven't been releasing, maybe you're suppressing a lot of emotions for years. Bottling up your emotions doesn't make them go away. They just pile up. And every time they pile up, it's like another thing that's just running in the background. So maybe you're suppressing your emotions. Maybe.
And we will be right back. And now back to the show. Maybe you're in toxic environments. Being around negativity can do this to you. The news, please turn that shit off. It's gotten so bad recently. Social media, please get off of it for a long time if you can. Spend less time on it. And if you're gonna spend time on social media, unfollow like 90% of the people that you follow now. right?
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