Most people say that to rest, you must "slow down".
But without a strategy, you'd just come back to the same mess you took a breather from.
Instead, zoom out and build systems that actually CHANGE something.
Nothing changes if you just "take a break".
@coachedcatholic
May 2, 2026
Cyclically exhausted? You don’t just need a break. You need a strategy.
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@misericordiaMay 2Do you have any tips to share? I think many people struggle with taking good rest.
@coachedcatholicMay 3Hey @misericordia! Great question.
The best tips I can share are:
1. Notice patterns in your exhaustion.
When do you get the most tired?
With what activities?
With how many hours of sleep?
Baseline yourself first, because you can’t scale anything without addressing the root.
2. Build strategies to address the exhaustion patterns you noticed.
Do you need to lessen certain activities, and add more life-giving ones?
Where can you draw boundaries?
Do you need more sleep? What keeps you from sleeping and how do you transition into better sleep?
This is where the optimization starts.
3. Keep progressively building. Shorten the time from pattern recognition to optimized action.
The optimal state doesn’t happen overnight.
And for each level of life, “optimal” means different things.
But you can only get to that point when the pattern-optimization loop becomes the norm.
You can’t change what you don’t track.
It starts with tracking, then consistent optimization from there. ✨
The best tips I can share are:
1. Notice patterns in your exhaustion.
When do you get the most tired?
With what activities?
With how many hours of sleep?
Baseline yourself first, because you can’t scale anything without addressing the root.
2. Build strategies to address the exhaustion patterns you noticed.
Do you need to lessen certain activities, and add more life-giving ones?
Where can you draw boundaries?
Do you need more sleep? What keeps you from sleeping and how do you transition into better sleep?
This is where the optimization starts.
3. Keep progressively building. Shorten the time from pattern recognition to optimized action.
The optimal state doesn’t happen overnight.
And for each level of life, “optimal” means different things.
But you can only get to that point when the pattern-optimization loop becomes the norm.
You can’t change what you don’t track.
It starts with tracking, then consistent optimization from there. ✨
