I Don't Have The Energy

Not having the vitality to fulfill your life purpose is part of a learned response. I'm tired, I'm exhausted, I'm worn out, and I'm too weary are just a few varieties of mind viruses that have infected you, consciously or not. They're generally an unintended excuse as opposed to a legitimate explanation for not doing the things you want to do.

Accept the belief that you're lacking the energy to make significant changes in your life and you latch on to a flimsy albeit very effective, strategy for maintaining some pretty slovenly habits.

You can hang on to any old and comfortable behavior patterns by using the tiredness excuse. I'd love to get into shape, but I'm simply too exhausted to do what's required.

Or, I want to become qualified for that new position, but I'm just too fatigued to go to school at night. The belief in your "non-energy" becomes self-fulfilling until you have to rest again, because coming up with excuses is a very tiring practice!

The low-energy excuse is simply what I've seen myself and many others employ when we don't know how to overcome our own inertia, and I've found that when we really put it to the test, it doesn't hold up. I've witnessed an absence of energy turn into an avalanche of high energy in just an instant.

When my children used to complain about being bored or too tired to move, for instance, all it took was a suggestion that we visit the water park, go shopping for a new bicycle, or do anything that they perceived to be fun, and they'd miraculously convert from weary to excited in a split second. And so it goes with all of us. We use the "I don't have the energy" excuse as a reason to hold on to an inert and pathetic way of being.

The antidote to this is to find a way to inject energetic thoughts into your everyday thinking. One of John F. Kennedy's biographers, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., quoted the former President as saying: "I suppose if you had to choose just one quality to have, that would be it: vitality."

Vitality isn't simply the amount of high-energy atoms you have swirling around inside of you; I consider it a way of thinking. You can learn to overcome the ennui of low-energy thinking and replace it with a way of processing the world that serves you in a positive, life-fulfilling way.

Low energy is by and large not a problem of body chemistry - it's a function of a long history of habituated thinking that needs excuses to stay the same. You can learn to practice more satisfying and vibrant thinking that will elevate your enthusiasm, and ultimately produce an energetic lifestyle filled with purpose.

No matter what your chronological age is, you have the power to use your thoughts to elevate yourself to new levels of success, happiness, and health. Excuses Begone! thinking encourages you to spend your daily moments in aliveness, free of the old tiredness routine.

Refuse to cater to low-energy mental activity. Be determined to unquestionably place your thoughts not on what you can't do, but on what you intend to create. Stay in this mind-set and you'll never want to use the low-energy excuse again.

Maintain your high-energy consciousness for what you want to accomplish, and watch it filter down to everyone you communicate with. High energy is infectious, and it originates with vital thinking that replaces those old mind viruses.

- Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

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