11 Daily Rituals That Will Double Your Mental Energy

When I first started my job as a manager, it mentally exhausted me. I was fed with continuous work and dealt with an impossible schedule.

During that time, I occasionally took up a few habits to reduce my given anxiety. But it sometimes wasn’t enough. Not only was I expected to complete the workload of an entire office, but I had other situations I wanted to complete too. I had my mind set to exercising, working on my own personal projects, and filling in my remaining time for a social life.

Although meditating and reflecting on your thoughts are a good habit to embrace, there’s a cycle of mini activities that will prevent yourself from breaking your mind. So let’s go over a few daily rituals that will double your mental energy.

#1 Plan your morning wake-ups

Although I mentioned a few hot points that help me get out of bed earlier, it’s important to remind you that your sleep habits should be continuously monitored.

And as important as it might be to set a bedtime, what always helped me was to set a wake up time instead. There’s nights where I usually like to stay up longer than others and such as myself, you might deal with the same habit.

Thus, develop a habit of waking up at a certain time every morning. It can be at 5, 6, 7, or 8 AM. Choose a time that’s comfortable for you to wake up on. You might find it annoying waking up on your own freewill when you don’t have to. Especially if you stay up late the night before.

But put in the effort to wake up at an earlier time and you’ll find yourself naturally going asleep at an earlier time. From there, you’ll discover a natural energy to be productive in the morning to complete your assigned tasks and start your day on the right track.

#2 Be a Master Over Your Emotions

We’ve all had moments where we were overtaken by fear, sadness, anger, or embarrassment and made a mistake. For me, it was allowing my anger to make my date upset by speaking about another female.

For others, it can be worst such as cheating simply because their girlfriend made them angry that day. Without a tight whip over your conscious thoughts, you find your energy dramatically draining until you’re completely wasted and making unclear decisions.

And it’s normally not the big problems that disrupts your emotions. It can be something as small as someone unfriending you on Facebook. It can be someone not opening the door for you. A collection of small negative events can eventually overwhelm you because you normally bottle those type of problems.

But the more you bottle up your discontent, the more your nerves are put on the edge and the possible outcomes of unleashing your anger on the nearest person.

It’s natural for you to feel a wide array of unpleasant emotions, but be mindful of preventing negative emotions during those encounters. Rather than getting angry that someone didn’t hold the door open for you, brush it over your shoulders because you have bigger things to worry about.

Avoid allowing your emotions to take control of your behaviors by thinking over your actions and the consequences if you were to act on them. You can either keep it real by yelling at someone for unfollowing you on Twitter, or you can be grateful for your remaining followers and think of ways on how you can enhance their lives.

#3 Be Mindful. Like, Actually Mindful

As odd as it might sound, although people explore the idea of living a mindful life, they never actually incorporate it. Mentally keeping yourself together is necessary to keep your energy at a balance level.

You might assume that your job is draining your energy, but if you don’t continuously audit your thoughts throughout the day, you’ll never be certain. Rather than dealing with a negative work environment, perhaps what’s hurting you the most is a lack of friends or support.

Put a conscious effort to examine what drains your energy in your day whether it’s from a certain person, habit, or environment. The more you watch over your daily routines, the easier it’ll be to spot what actually drains you. From there, you’ll find the energy to remove those burdens from your daily activities.

#4 Don’t Freak out about exercising. Just be active

Unlike Ashley, I’m not the biggest fan of exercising. However, such as I don’t like going grocery shopping or running errands, it has to be done. But a heavy burden was removed from my shoulders after a fitness leader gave me some advice on how to stay moderately in shape if I missed an exercise session.

Which was pretty much constantly remaining active in any activities you perform.

Rather than sit and read, stand and read. Rather than type at your keyboard while sitting, try standing if it’s possible. Although working out regularly is a major benefactor for your mental and physical health, remaining active is the first step to mastering your overall health.

Create a habit by doing activities that require you to move your entire body. Play more sports. Park your car at the end of the parking lot to walk further. Keep your blood running throughout the day by walking more and moving your arms.

#5 Try to Care Just a Little

You ever get annoyed by other people. Maybe someone cut you off on the freeway. Maybe someone you liked ignored you for no reason. Things like this happen all the time and our emotions tend to stir towards the wrong direction whenever it does.

But before you lash out against anyone, try seeing their perspectives. Try understanding the environment that you’re in. If you’re on the freeway during a major traffic jam, it’s easy to assume the world is against you. But consciously tell yourself that there’s a logical reason for the traffic jam.

Remind yourself that other people normally don’t act negative around others for no reason, and someone could be dealing with a personal issue. It’s easy to be angry at anyone for any little reason. But it’s wiser to be angry at the right person for the right reason at the right time.

Prevent yourself from assuming people are out to wrong you and see the situation for what it actually is. That way, you release that unnecessary anger and content that’s built in you. It makes your interaction with other people more friendly and in-tuned.

#6 Remind Yourself to Slow Down

Remind yourself that you’re not invisible and occasionally need a break to prevent yourself from burning out. Even the best machines need a break before they wear and tear.

Although you might be in the natural flow to continue working and making your way to the top, slow down and give yourself a break. Or else, the only thing you’ll do is drain yourself mentally and head towards a negative path.

You only have a limited amount of energy to spare and how you use it greatly depends on your mindset. Think of your mind as a phone battery and without getting off the phone to charge it, it’ll turn off before you know it.

Thus, occasionally stop yourself every day to prevent yourself from exhausting your mentality. Take short vacations, spend quality time with those you care about, and be mindful of the moment.

#7 Accept That it takes 1 step at a time

Most people normally start a mindful lifestyle by jumping two feet ahead. But they eventually overwhelm themselves when they expect their life to turn 360 the first day, week, or month.

Such as a 300 pound person can’t expect to lose 150 pounds overnight, people shouldn’t expect to heal their minds overnight. You need to give your mind and body time to adjust to the changes you’re trying to enforce.

If you previously dealt with a drug addiction, your mind is going to have to fight the daily dosages is usually had before it returns back to normal. If you dealt with depression, you’re going to have to remove each negative piece trapped in your mind.

Avoid overwhelming yourself by expecting your life to completely change overnight. Instead, work on each other in your life 1 step at a time.

#8 Work on 1 Thing at a time

As tempting as it might seem to work on several projects simultaneously, you’ll never do as great as you could have done if you worked on it alone.

It might take longer to finish everything on your task list, but if you want the best results for whatever you’re working on, solely focus on it before transitioning to the next activity.

The only time I find it reasonably okay to break this rule is whenever I’m performing mediocre activities that don’t require much thought. Such as cleaning and listening to audio books, or exercising and listening to podcasts.

However, if I’m writing an article, studying, taking note, or working on programming, I solely focus on each project at a time to ensure it goes exactly the way I want.

#9 Don’t Worry About Giving Yourself a Goal

As odd as this might seem, something I’ve noticed was how people productivity skyrocketed whenever they stop setting a goal for themselves and actually went after what they wanted.

Whenever people set goals for themselves, they see it as an ultimate prize they might be able to obtain. Sometimes they assume they’re not worthy enough to accomplish their goals or their goals are out of reach.

However, if they imagine their goals as just another task they have to complete, it suddenly becomes easier. It’ll be like telling yourself you need to do the laundry rather than saying it’s your goal to finish your laundry. Although both results are the same, the mindset to getting there would be totally different. Rather than seeing your laundry as this ultimate prize to the easy life, you only see it as another task to complete that day.

#10 Audit Your Thoughts

Such as what has been said throughout history, you think what you shall become. If you think towards a negative path, you’re more likely to see life in a negative light rather a positive.

Be conscious about what you think about throughout your day and reflect on them. What do your thoughts reveal about your character? Are they positive and pointing towards the direction you want? Or do you constantly shove negative thoughts against the world and can’t trust no one except yourself?

Although it’s easy to forget the importance of auditing your thoughts, remind yourself by telling yourself the quote, “You become what you constantly think about.” It’s short and easy enough to remember.

Whenever I feel negative and angry at the world, I like to say this to myself to restrain the toxic person inside me.

#11 Don’t Expect Others to Like You

You’re not here to satisfy any humans or animals in the world nor are they here to satisfy yours. Your pride might assume that you need acceptance and recognition from others. It might want others to recognize that you’re an intelligent, sexy person.

But all you really receive is a temporarily ego boost. It’s why people can’t only post 1 selfie every blue moon. They’re constantly uploading new selfies onto Facebook or Instagram to gain new likes and ego boosts to feel better about themselves. But the feelings never last as long as they’d like and they repeat the pattern again and again.

If you allow yourself to be ruled by the validation and acceptance of others, you’re allowing them to control your life and emotions. Rather than needing others to refill your validations, rely on yourself by setting your own expectations each day. Appreciate what you accomplished and how you overcame those obstacles.

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