5 Things You Can Do if You Feel Tired All the Time

Surprisingly Simple Ways to Overcome Mental, Emotional, or Physical Fatigue

Neel Raman
4 min readJul 27, 2021

If you feel tired all the time, it’s a sign you need to change your lifestyle.

Everyone experiences days when their energy levels are low. Those are often exceptions to how they feel normally.

Excessive tiredness is not normal, which means things have to change to feel energised again.

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Possible Reasons You Feel Tired All the Time

While your lifestyle plays a role in how you feel, reasons you may feel tired all the time include:

  • Fatigue due to overwork.
  • Lack of sleep or sleep apnea.
  • Poor diet and unhealthy eating habits.
  • High stress.
  • The effects of medication.
  • Being overweight.
  • Vitamin deficiency.
  • Mental health issues, which can lead to feelings of sadness or depression.
  • Other medical or health-related issues, including diabetes.

Why it’s Important to Address Feeling Tired All the Time

If you feel tired all the time, it’s important to address it because it will allow you to:

  • Stay focused and alert.
  • Produce high-quality work.
  • Avoid making costly mistakes.
  • Maintain a consistent standard.
  • Have a healthy attitude.

If you know you feel tired all the time, there are simple things you can do to overcome your mental, emotional, or physical fatigue.

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5 Surprisingly Simple Things You Can Do if You Feel Tired All the Time

Every person’s situation is unique, so the recommendation is to apply what you think will benefit you.

Here are five simple things you can do if you feel tired all the time, so you can get back to feeling like your normal self again and enjoy your days again.

  1. Seek advice from a medical or health professional. It’s irresponsible to make lifestyle changes without knowing what you need to address or what the causes are. Consulting a medical or health professional will help pinpoint what’s going on with you, and whether there are other issues you need to address.
  2. Improve your quality of sleep. Getting proper rest every night is critical to your overall wellness. The better rested you are, the better your emotional and physical will be. Learning the importance of creating a bedtime routine and how to improve your sleep cycles are steps you can take.
  3. Set simple exercise and mindfulness goals daily. Your mental and emotional health affects your physical health. Practicing mindfulness techniques will relax your mind and improve how you feel. Applying a practice for even five minutes will condition you to take better care of yourself.
  4. Focus on body movement and be more active. A challenge most knowledge workers face is not moving their bodies enough during their workday. Your physiology affects your emotional state. If you want to feel better, move your body more. Get sunlight during the day, stretch your muscles, and focus on getting fresh air.
  5. Dedicate time to your hobbies or passions. When you do things you love, you’re automatically energised and feel good. If you know you feel good after doing something you love, schedule time for time it. How often you do it depends on your priorities. If feeling good matters to you, make your hobbies and passions a priority.

Final Thoughts

If you don’t have the energy you’d like to have, you will feel unmotivated and sluggish, which will affect your performance and productivity. Managing your energy level is critical if you want to get things done and feel good about yourself.

Making simple changes to your lifestyle will make a difference and prevent other serious issues later on.

Action Step: If you have experienced excessive tiredness recently, reflect on what’s going on for you. The next step you can take is to consult with a medical or health professional to gain more clarity on what may be going on for you.

Question: What are other things you can do if you feel tired all the time?

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Neel Raman
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