When You Feel Tired, Slow Down, But Don't Stop

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2 years ago

March 25, 7:40 AM

This is just my third article in the last seven days. That two-day trip to Antique and back may have drained me more than I thought. (Read: Our First Adventure to Antique- Malumpati Cold Spring). Nevertheless, that trip was more than worth it. I haven't written about the second day.


Greetings awesome read.cash friends, and writers. It's Friday again already. It felt like it was just yesterday when we had that short vacation. Yes, I felt drained in the past seven days. Probably, I was so tired from that trip, or because of this scorching summer heat!

I usually write late in the evening. However, doing so often kept me awake up to 11 in the evening. Since my body clock is set to wake up around 4:30 in the morning, that means I usually sleep less than six hours per day. I need to change my routine. That's why I am writing this in the morning. But I want to do my writing before anyone here wakes up.


Exhausted

I always felt exhausted in the past few days. Again, perhaps an aftermath of that tiring trip, or probably because of the summer heat. I can normally finish writing an article in less than an hour. Maybe two or three if I need to do some research. But it took me more time than that to finish my last two articles. And I spent some time preparing the photo collage for my next article. The second part of our trip.

Since November, I have been able to upload about 25 articles per month. This month, I only have 15 so far. Making this my 16th article and there are only six days left for March. Wow! Time really flies!

Take It Slow, But Do Not Stop

This is one thing I learned though. True, I got exhausted. But it does not mean I have to stop writing. I just took it slowly. Normally, I push myself to finish an article in one sitting. Just like now, I have enabled my Promodoro timer again. But in writing the last two articles, I think it took me two to four sessions to finish each. Moreover, it took me more than a day to finish each.

Slow, but I did not stop. I think that's what we should always do. What I should always do. Yes, I need to be consistent. I need to be persistent. But there are times when I need to slow down.

I recall whenever I do my morning jog, I would occasionally take it slow and walk. What is important is, I don't stop.

Same thing with my life in general. There are times I get exhausted in pursuit of my goals. That is normal. We need to take a rest from time to time. Even God commanded to give a day per week for rest. It's the only way to recover our strength.

As Confucius says:

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

 In Closing:

We are only humans. We have our limits. We get tired. We get exhausted. In pursuit of achieving the goals we often encounter obstacles. Sometimes we think of stopping. We think of quitting.

But quitting will only ensure that we will never get to where we wanted to. We can take slow from time to time. But we should never stop.

Live a productive life.

Thanks for reading


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Great sentence it is, when we are tried we should not stop our-self. we should slow or take rest and after it move on more.

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2 years ago

Even me, feeling tired and exhausted at the same yung parang patay ako inside, ewan ko ba.

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2 years ago

I guess.. natural lang na madaanan natin ang ganitong feelings. Ang mahalaga kung ano ang ginagawa natin pag nafeel natin to.

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2 years ago

And how to deal with it

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2 years ago

The difference between stopping and moving forward, albeit slowly, is well explained. It was extra nice to sample from the articles you wrote. Congratulations, it was fun to read.

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2 years ago

Thank you. :)

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2 years ago

have to remind myself about this today..thanks!

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2 years ago

Yeah we should also learn to slow down on things because there's no competition around us the only the that we are competing is with ourselves.

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2 years ago

That is correct... And I had to check if your avatar is Luffy.

Lol. 😄😄😄😄

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2 years ago

Yeah it was hahahaha

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2 years ago

Yeah, it doesn't matter how long will it take for us to achieved what we do but don't ever try to stop. Parang pagod lang din ako these past few days pero kaya naman.

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2 years ago

Tama. Pahinga din ng konti from time to time.

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2 years ago

On my case I can consume 2 to 3 hours in making a one article. It's because I have difficulty in vocabulary words. Good for you, that you can finish one article in just less than an hour.

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2 years ago

Grammarly is a great helper on that matter. 😉

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2 years ago

I think also that would be the best solution especially for who had the hard time composing paragraph and phrases.

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2 years ago

This is what I do I compose my draft using Zoho writer. I set it to full screen to minimize distraction. Zoho Writer has a good grammar and spelling checker. It even corrects punctuations which Grammarly does not. Then I copy the text to the Read.Cash Editor where Grammarly catches what Zoho writer does not. I think I will write about Zoho Writer in a day or two. :D

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2 years ago

Ahh, thanks for sharing that awesome idea. Expect that I'll be doing good of that.

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2 years ago

Glad to be of help. :)

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2 years ago

Resting and taking breaks are necessary to regain our lost creativity and energy. Don't tire out the body too much. Have a balance and live and enjoy life along with the usual work.

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2 years ago

Yeah I agree, I believe in saying that losers quit when they’re tired. Winners quit when they’ve won.

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2 years ago

Yes me too,hindi ko alam bat feel ko ang pagod,parang walang gana ewan ko but still I was able to manage lalo na dito ,kahit papano nakapagbasa lang ng kaunting article.

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2 years ago

Dala siguro ng mainit na panahon.

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2 years ago

It is really inevitable to feel tired and get lost but then no matter what life will lead us still we able to find way just to keep going. Nkakapagod tlga to chase our dreams but thats life we need to pause and chase again.

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