This isn’t another article to raid your conscience or critique your preexisting values and morality of your personal life choices–well, not entirely.
Something terrible happens during the transition from a kid to a teenager. Something must be taking place between the elementary era to the middle school era that seems to be snatching the enthusiasm right out of the previously bright-eyed kid that lit up at the sound of going to school despite the early hours it entails. Too soon, students lose the pure will to simply wake up and begin their daily routines. While several factors contribute to this crisis, a few will be addressed that can make a significant and observable difference in your energy level.
My fellow collegiate, I get it. Perhaps all of your vigor went out the window when creativity did and replaced your vitality with disdain for all letters that somehow made their way into the equations of your textbook. Perhaps, you find energy drinks and other supplements to be your ‘go-to’ energy booster. But isn’t it incredible how much, almost instinctively, we try everything, even the highest end products, before getting to the root of the issue and assess our lifestyle? That’s like jump-starting your car every day instead of changing a bad battery: you will wind up with the same issue. Getting to the bottom of what needs to change for better living is honestly, the best and cheapest way.
With the reoccurring and relatable urge to question how your parents would take it if you dropped school to become a stripper, I know college and school, in general, can be tough. Especially if you juggle a full-time academic schedule with a part-time job. This short list is carefully made to alleviate your stressful schedule while rebooting your energy and sustaining you in the right way.
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1. Obviously, get some sleep
Adjust your sleep schedule so that it accommodates your well-being as well as the well-being of your daily routines.
2. Drink water
Just drink it. Besides the fact that water accounts for 60% of body weight and is a huge participant in your energy level, it also fights off fatigue, increases metabolism and clears skin, PLUS it costs less than an energy drink
3. Eat breakfast
Cliché, Cliché—but if you’re going to skip a meal, don’t skip the one that jump-starts your day by replacing it with alternative and insufficient things like “a Grande coffee with extra cream and sugar please.”
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4. Stretch
Before you begin your day and throughout the day as well it’s always good to take a little time to stretch. Stretching reaps several benefits because it relaxes the tenseness of our muscles that otherwise hinder the full extension of the muscle and thus inhibits performance.
5. Increase knowledge of energy-boosting foods
The list is endless: there are literally hundreds of fruits, vegetables and grains that naturally double the energy you would find in chemically induced energy boosters. To name a few: bananas, Guava, apples, plums, lemons (put it in your water) and papayas.