If you’re tired of work, life, and everything else. This is how to take a ‘break’ to instantly regain your motivation.

Because we're human.

When you're doing various things, there are times when you feel tired.

When you're tired of life, tired of work, tired of living, tired of human relationships, etc., I think there are all sorts of ways to get tired.

Everyone, how do you recover from fatigue at such times?

When I'm tired of living, I've experienced it several times too, of course.

As a result, my hands stop, and I become unable to work.

If you keep dragging on in this tired state, you won't get any work done at all.

So, precisely when you're tired, you try to use your head and think a little.

What kind of rest should I take to quickly regain both physical and mental energy?

I think about ways to rest and try various things.

I experiment to see what kind of rest makes me recover quickly, or what kind of rest makes my fatigue disappear all at once.

This time, I'll list the 'ways to rest' that I've tried and found to be most effective for recovery.

When you're tired of living, work, people, and various other things, please give it a try.

Seclude yourself, cut off all contact with the outside world, and immerse yourself in gaming. Gamer shut-in therapy.

This is quite effective.

You should buy a PlayStation 4. It seems that products like the PlayStation 4 PRO have also been released recently.

Anyway, I seclude myself, keep work to a minimum, and play games endlessly.

I buy snacks and food, don't leave my room, and play through all the games I wanted to play, one after another.

If I keep playing, somehow, in about 2 to 3 days, I can clear one game.

Then, strangely enough, the 'overwhelmed feeling' from overthinking everything in my head disappears. Huh, I wonder why?

• You can temporarily stop the activity of your brain, which thinks about many things every day.
• You can temporarily and completely forget about being burdened by something or chasing something.
• You can place your brain in an extraordinary state, away from the ordinary.

Perhaps that's why your brain can rest, I think.

It's true.

By the way, the games I use for stress relief are called Uncharted and Grand Theft Auto.

Will it become FINAL FANTASY XV a little later? That looks fun, doesn't it?

So, everyone, whether you play games or not, please give it a try. Spending three days as a gamer shut-in is more efficient for recovering motivation than working sluggishly for a week with 'half-hearted' motivation.

After being a gamer shut-in, I don't feel tired of life or tired of work at all, really.

Just sleep. Eat. Watch movies. Sleep. Eat. The eat-and-sleep therapy.

I do gain weight, though. Well, I can just lose it after I recover.

Sleeping is really mysterious, isn't it?

Most things recover with sleep.

However, I think recovering with sleep, while seeming to alleviate fatigue, is only a temporary solution.

When things are really bad, even if you sleep, your fatigue doesn't go away, and your motivation doesn't rise. Even after sleeping, waking up, and being awake, your motivation remains low.

At such times, even a little sleep won't bring any recovery.

Anyway, let's sleep. Let's eat what we like. This is similar to gamer shut-in therapy, but reject and cut off all work and pressure from the outside world, and just immerse yourself in sleep and food.

Buy delicious food and eat it, and also eat all the things you usually refrain from. Like pizza delivery or sushi.

Anyway, it's important to satisfy what you're always putting up with, without putting up with it. Especially, thoroughly continue to satisfy your three major desires.

After a while, there comes a time when you wake up in the morning and somehow feel like, 'Is it about time to get started?'

This, too, might be because a mysterious impatience, 'Is it okay to be doing this?', gives you a push.

Once you start to feel like, 'I've rested enough, and it's getting serious if I don't get moving soon,' that's a sign your motivation is recovering.

Let's keep pushing until the next 'time you get tired'.

Travel abroad for about 1 to 2 weeks. Nomadic therapy.

This works quite well.

However, it doesn't work for people who are used to traveling abroad, or for those who packed too much into an overly demanding schedule.

Since I also travel abroad quite a bit, it was quite effective until about two years ago, but now it doesn't work at all.

Also, if you pack your schedule too tightly and go all over the place, you'll end up exhausted after returning to Japan.

In such cases, make sure to set aside a rest period of about one or two days in advance.

Nomadic therapy, like the eat-and-sleep therapy and the game-addict therapy, requires you to shut out all information related to your daily stressors.

Work, communication, human relationships. You must not bring any of these things into your trip.

Instead, immerse yourself in an extraordinary environment and distance yourself from your usual daily life.

If, for example, you try to be a nomad while still doing a little work, you'll end up finishing your trip 'still tired'.

As a result, you'll lose sight of why you went.

Distance yourself from everything in daily life, and explore the extraordinary.

That's why your fatigue recovers, and your will to live also springs forth.

Summary

I think there are various ways to relieve stress when you're tired, but there's one common point that applies to all of them.

That is, 'to take a substantial amount of time away from work'.

Drastically reduce the amount of work you usually handle, and even if you do work, dedicate only the minimal effort to it.

Pour all your other energy into stress relief activities.

If you're still burdened with a workload that causes stress at the same time as trying to relieve it, it won't have a significant effect.

It's important to finish most of your work thoroughly, then temporarily stop taking on new tasks, create a situation where you're not heavily burdened, and dedicate a substantial amount of time to stress relief.

Just one night of drinking or karaoke isn't enough for significant stress relief.

We've always heard the saying, 'When you rest, rest properly,' but taking a proper, extended rest is crucial for truly resting your mind, body, and brain.

Also, when you rest, don't hold back.

Do what you usually hold back on, to your heart's content, without any restraint.

It's as important as taking a substantial amount of time off from work.

Depending on the activity, simply 'doing what you usually want to do all at once without holding back' can lead to a full recovery.

This time, I've mainly shared my stress relief methods, but I wonder if you all have your own methods as well.

Let's skillfully balance rest and work, and try to live our daily lives as efficiently as possible.