When You Can't Produce In One Spot, Move

Some days I wake up and feel positively sluggish. I cannot get my brain in gear. I usually end up feeling down about myself because I feel I am not pushing myself hard enough. I know that isn't right but it is the kind of hole I can fall into.

There are a few things and that can get my brain moving and help me feel better about me. One is to get busy with something. Most often it is not the task or responsibility I think I should be doing or need to do, but usually there is something I can do. I mentally go through my endless to do list to see if there is any task I can think of to do, that I can make myself do right now? Tackling a task low on the priority list and accomplishing it often leads to being able to do the next higher thing on the list

I try to pick something like filing. It is a low brain power activity yet it is important and always needs to be done. If that doesn't work, I pick something else like errands. Anything that will slowly work my brain into a productive mode. It has to be something that doesn't require much creativity or thinking. More rote activities. That is how I work my way up the priority list rather than down.

It is a shift in perspective, a shift in attitude. I find if I move around, get the blood flowing, I start to feel more capable. It requires letting go of my "should" list and shuffling tasks, but it always works. On days like that my motto is: When you can’t produce in one spot, move.