Edition #15: The Low-Energy Day Plan

 📌 Here's What's Up:

• ✅ You’re tired, not broken

• ✅ Get Sh*t Done: Your “minimum viable morning”

• ✅ Get Better At Work: How to stay effective on low battery

• ✅ Featured Morning Routine: Brené Brown’s gentle reset strategy

• ✅ Stoic Reset: Do what you can, not what you wish you could

• ✅ To-Do List: Your low-energy plan in 5 steps

🔥 You’re Tired, Not Broken

You don’t need to crush it. You just need to keep the streak alive.
Momentum matters more than intensity.

💡 Low effort isn’t failure. It’s strategy.

⚡ Get Sh*t Done: The Minimum Viable Morning

✅ Pick One Thing You’ll Do No Matter What
One push-up. One page. One intention.
It’s not about how much, it’s about not disappearing.

✅ Try the 3-3-3 Reset
→ 3 minutes of light movement (walk, stretch, breathwork)
→ 3 minutes of silence or breathing
→ 3 minutes to write down anything on your mind
Keeps you grounded without draining what little energy you have.

✅ Dial It Back (Without Checking Out)
→ Not feeling creative? Watch something inspiring.
→ Can’t write? Read. Can’t run? Stretch or Walk.
This isn’t quitting, it’s recalibrating.

✅ Stick to Structure, Shrink the Load
→ Follow your usual routine, but only 30% of it.
You’re reinforcing identity without overreaching. Push through.

🚀 Get Better At Work: Don’t Let Low Energy Lead to Lazy Work

• Start with low-stakes tasks. Get rolling with simple wins.

• Use 25-minute focus blocks. Short bursts, short breaks.

• Avoid decision-heavy work. Tired brains overthink everything.

• Cut inputs. Don’t add noise when your head’s already loud.

Pro Tip: Give yourself permission to do B+ work when A+ effort isn’t on the table.

🏆 Featured Routine: Brené Brown

Brené Brown’s mornings aren’t about cold plunges or biohacking. They’re about clarity, intention, and showing up fully human, flaws and all.

Here’s how she gets grounded before stepping into the work of vulnerability and leadership:

• No phone for the first hour.
  She believes starting reactive (doom scrolling) sets the tone for a distracted day.

• 5-minute breathwork or prayer.
  Grounds her in presence and slows her down before the “to-do” engine starts revving.

• Coffee ritual with her husband.
  Connection first, then creation. She says this tiny ritual makes her feel more “anchored than optimized.”

• Journaling (with brutal honesty).
  She uses journaling not to list wins, but to name what’s really going on emotionally, before it hijacks her day.

🧠 Our Take:

Brené’s routine is a reminder that clarity isn’t always found in hustle, sometimes it’s in stillness. If your mornings feel like sprints, consider swapping optimization for intention just once this week. You might be surprised what shows up when you slow down enough to notice it.

🧠 Stoic Reset: Guard Your Morning Like a Roman Emperor

The play:
Zoom out later. For now, do one clear thing, calmly. Baby steps. It’s OK, but only once in a while.

📋 To-Do List: Fix the First Hour

• ✅ One non-negotiable (your MVP habit)

• ✅ 3-3-3 reset (move / breathe / write)

• ✅ Adjust your routine, don’t kill it

• ✅ Consume calm, not chaos.

• ✅ Share your morning hacks on IG - tag @HackMorning