Quite an interesting read. I’d make a distinction between tired and drained. There are EOD that I feel tired but deeply satisfied because I did what I had to do

Quite an interesting read. I’d make a distinction between tired and drained. There are EOD that I feel tired but deeply satisfied because I did what I had to do, was productive, and what I did was something worth doing. On the contrary there are EOD when I’ve been very busy, meetings, complicated conversations, disagreements, and such… those days I just feel drained, exhausted and don’t really find any joy in that. Two things come from that, the first being that doing nothing is terribly unsatisfactory for me, it is in doing that I find that my hours have been well used, and is not just $WORK but being intentional about doing and then having the satisfaction of having done. The second is that a day when I’m tired in such fashion is often the time that I’m inspired to make some dinner or spend time with family, call a friend, or some other thing that I usually consider healthy, while the days that I’m drained usually have evenings wasted on hours of YouTube or Netflix that I really didn’t care for, thus wasted, all just a blur only to realize that is past midnight… Thus nowadays I strive to be more tired and less drained :)