5 methods I used for COVID burnout.
Honestly I'm sure we've all reached this stage somewhere in these past months.
Hey friend,
Another “me again, I’m alive” email — shooting for consistency this time around. Yes, these emails typically come once a week but I felt as if the topics were always a little all over the place.
So I’m working on solving that, but in order to get down to the bottom of that — I had to find the solution to why was I always feeling so tired and just down.
Which I’m going to go ahead and label as COVID Burnout.
I was just waking up, sitting in front of my computer, meetings, then signing out to play video games because of how tired I was.
Eventually I came to the conclusion on “hey this isn’t the Micah that everyone anticipates nor this is the person I want to continue fueling.”
And I set out to draw out a plan (・ω・)👍—
My COVID-19 Burnout Fix Plan
Set 1 high level intention daily.
The example I would give is going about your day with the notion of “mindfulness of my actions”. Don’t think to hard on this, look at the people you look up towards and how do you think they go about their day?
At least one grounding practice (10 mins ideally)
Most of us use meditation as a practice of grounding, some will use prayer, but most of all it’s finding a moment of stillness within it all. There’s a million apps out there I suggest just choosing one that you find attractive and rocking with it.
Yoga, Stretching, or Workouts
During this lockdown I did physical therapy and had the rude awakening that, I need to move my body some sort of way daily. And now I know most of my readers aren’t full on gym goers so I highly suggest some form of yoga or walking. This can be 10 minutes.
Listen to music that sets the mood you want
When it’s time to slow down and focus.. listen to something that will slow you down, which ambient music and binaural beats are great for. If it’s time for hype and applying the pressure tune into the genre your soul sings with.. don’t fight against it.
Schedule your day (somewhat)
This goes hand and hand with the intentions.. but you’re now setting intentions for every hour or so of your day. I prefer to open up my calendar app and block an hour or so with a brief description of what the focus will be.
Putting these all together you can do this all in the first hour of your day, and for me that’s the ideal time (for you it can be different).
To conclude this all, I’d love to know if something worked for you during these times that you’d like to share with everyone.
Wishing you the best of weeks,
Micah Carroll.