Why you may be feeling so tired after sitting at work all day

5 small interventions to re-energize your day

I went on a walk this weekend, and I was lucky enough to see a blue jay!

It was much bigger than I expected– I thought it’d be about the size of a cardinal, but I’d say it’s about one size up (if you can even measure bird sizes like that).

Anyways, I was on my walk because the sun was out, I was tired of looking at a screen, and I needed to feel…alive?

I don’t know how to describe it, but I wasn’t feeling alive and present. It happens when I’m very busy, on a screen, and oftentimes when I’m spending a lot of time alone.

Working on a lot of things for the book launch, I found myself checking off all three boxes.

What we miss out on when we’re on a screen

This is not a lecture on why screens are bad for you– I think we get enough of that, and screen time is not inherently toxic (we learn, read stories, become inspired, and connect on the Internet).

But it’s a reminder that how you spend your focus matters. When our brain is so focused on seeing or hearing something on a screen, we get absorbed into a world separate from the world we exist in.