What’s Good With Being Tired
An efficiency story
Many years ago, it happened to me to read somewhere this sentence from a trainer:
There’s no training without stress.
That’s the point! That’s why we should not be uncomfortable with the tiredness. Is it stress? Sure! Is it bad? No!
Why?
It’s when we’re tired that efficiency comes to life.
Weirdly, but when we have plenty of energy, we waste a big part of it. That’s not a strict rule, but it’s often true.
With the small sentence above, that trainer enlightened me because he revealed with a few words the seed of the efficiency.
Too often, people consider efficiency something for strict businessmen, something that’s far from the human feelings of generosity. It’s an opinion that deserves respect. Nevertheless, it’s a myopic view because, without resources — energy, money, time, … — there’s no feasible generosity.
The same happens when we are tired. Tiredness is an opportunity to focus on efficiency. It’s when we start asking the productive questions like:
- How could I improve?
- How could I spend less?
- How could I take control of the most expensive habits?
Tiredness makes us stop and reflect.
If we can get tiredness as a resource, we’ll get stronger thanks to the stress it caused and the questions it stimulated!
