Do you wake up feeling sluggish and unrefreshed? The worst thing is waking up feeling exhausted when you’re supposed to be starting your day. I experienced this for years and have a lot of clients that go through this. You’re not alone!

Below are my top tips for getting more stabilized energy throughout the day and great sleep at night.

1. Eat a smaller dinner.

Eat at least three or four hours before you go to bed. This allows for a better quality of sleep and more energy when you wake up. I recommend to try this out for at least one week.

2. Drink more water in the morning and add green vegetable juice.

We’re the most dehydrated in the morning, which is not good. Many times, we go straight for the caffeine, which is a diuretic that makes us more dehydrated.

I recommend starting with two glasses of warm water in the morning and then drinking water throughout the day. This is going to give us great energy and make sure that we’re hydrated.

Another way to hydrate and get more energy is green vegetable juice. Things like kale, cucumber, celery, spinach, and parsley are great. They have so many minerals and vitamins. It’s going to give you that boost to help you feel great. The biggest goal is that we have stabilized energy throughout the day.

We’ll often go straight for the coffee and a muffin, which is really like a cupcake. It starts this cycle of being up and down, up and down all day and our energy levels are so inconsistent. This is going to make us feel exhausted. We want to learn how to stabilize our blood sugar so we have that energy all day.

3. Movement 

Exercise gives you energy. I know in our minds, and this has happened to me as well, when we’re tired, we don’t want to do exercise. We think we don’t have enough energy. But exercise gives you energy. Even if it’s just 10 minutes of walking in the morning or stretching, it gets the joints open.

I go through this with my morning stretches of every major joints group in the body. Because if we’re sitting all day we, again, we have to learn how to get more energy and that’s going to be through movement. Even breathing exercises can help. A lot of times, we’re not breathing that well and that makes us tired. We need to learn how to drop our breath into our lower belly and to expand the lungs. I call it the 360-degree breath.

4. Take a cold shower.

I’m not going to go into the details of why this is so important and I recommend that you just try it out. It’s going to wake up that nervous system. Especially if you’re exhausted in the morning, I definitely recommend trying this.

5. Journaling

If we’re tired in the morning, it might be because we’re not looking forward to our day, or we have a lot of stress. I recommend journaling because you can get your thoughts out. When you write things out it completes the thought process.

Another thing that could make it so that we’re not having energy is our thoughts being fragmented. We don’t have a clear direction or goals. You have to be able to prioritize and make the right decisions to create momentum and action in your life.

I recommend writing a few things that you’re excited about and what you’re grateful for. This starts shifting things. The first step is awareness because negative energy and negative thoughts are going to put a damper on the mood, especially in the morning.

What gives you energy in the morning and gets you out of bed? I can’t wait to hear your comments below!