7 healthy habits for energy and clarity

You don’t need to do a green juice detox and meditate, but try to implement these 7 tiny healthy habits for energy and clarity in your life. We live in a distracted world where it’s hard to stay clear on what is important and simple to get overwhelmed by basically – nothing on a daily basis. If you’re feeling stuck, if you’re not clear on what you’re doing, it might be time to disconnect and get into a healthier routine. So, here are some healthy life changes to make.

Do you ever wake up thinking:

“Today we wanna feel like crap, let everything overwhelm us and then go to sleep. Good night!”

Well, we bet there are some people who actually might say this, but us and you are not among them.

Because we, we want to have more energy throughout the day. To be productive, and have the capacity to live and enjoy life even after work. Then when the day is done, you’re proud of the things you’ve accomplished and feel satisfied because you’ve made progress.

To be honest with you, lately, we've been none of the above. For a few weeks, we felt lethargic, distracted and somewhat overwhelmed with everything we “have” to do. Sleep? What is sleep? Food? Do lattes count? Exercise? Well, we did take the stairs that one time.

We needed to get back to our basics. To the things that we know make us feel more alive when we actually do them.

So, last week we finally had enough of feeling like we don’t even have a physical body and like we're drained. We wrote down our little list of habits for more energy and focus and started working on it right away (which is key and also something we've struggled with for the longest time).

And tada – magic. Within a day, we started feeling more clear-headed, energetic and overall better.

We even lost a pound (which hasn’t happened in a while, not for the lack of trying). So here are the healthy habits for energy and clarity that might help you as well.

7 Healthy Habits For Energy & Clarity

Sometimes you just need to start with something small and stay consistent with it, then the clarity and energy for bigger things will come as well.

1. Eat More Raw Fruits And Vegetables

Raw fruits and vegetables are shown to reduce inflammation and are among the nutrient-densest foods in the world. If you don’t have energy, you might be missing an essential nutrient in your diet. Enjoying healthy foods like fruits and vegetables more often will provide with vitamins essential for your mood and energy – like vitamin C.

In fact, consuming more fruits and vegetables has been shown to increase energy levels and improve mood.

Therefore, if you eat them more often, you’ll be less fatigued and you’ll be giving your body what it needs to perform better & be healthier. To keep a clean, nourishing diet, we highly recommend cooking more often and enjoying more salads and smoothies. They’re fast and simple to prepare and are packed with nutrition!

2. Wake up at the same time, even on the weekend

We love how most health and weight loss articles out there include:

“Get some sleep and reduce stress.”

“Mkay…how?” (this is you)

“we don’t know…Why do you ask? We're only telling you what to do.” (that’s the person who wrote the article)

Great, thanks.

Now we're gonna take a chance and tell you, not only to get the 7.5 hours of sleep you need every night but also to wake up at the same time.

Why? Well, because it makes it easier to get into a routine and start getting better sleep. Which means you’ll have more energy and be able to stay focused and think clearly.

If you wake up one day at 6, and the other at 10, you’ll either feel tired throughout the day or won’t be able to go to sleep until late in the evening. Stay consistent. There’s something so admirable about consistency. It’s like a tree that stays tall even in the biggest storms. Consistency builds strength. So stay consistent in the good things.

Another important tip here is to do something realistic, according to the season. For example, during summer, we have no problem getting up at 5 am. During winter, when it’s dark and cold – you can’t move us with an excavator until 7 am.

3. Fix Your Posture

Now this will also boost your mood and even your confidence. We don’t realize it most of the time, but posture has a major impact on the chemistry of our bodies. So be aware of it – it does change things. Rumor has it, sitting up straight might even help with depression and anxiety.

4. Do 5-10 minutes of exercise every morning after you wake up

Morning workouts are among our favorite things and something we think everyone should do. This healthy habit has truly changed our days for the better.

Why? Because morning workouts are an notable energy booster. Movement in the morning will help clear your mind and get your body ready for the day. You can do yoga, Pilates, go for a run or even do some push-ups. This habit will wake up your body and make you feel ready for a great day.

5. Disconnect

We don’t know about you, but one of our biggest energy vampires is being on our phone and checking messages and status updates. It truly is an addiction and consumes so much of your mental energy. Without even realizing it. Even if you’re just looking at photos or reading something, your brain registers this information and processes it. It uses energy to do so. Energy that you then do not have for other things, the things that matter. We were not made for this much information and, honestly, entertainment. We were created to be outside, to be connecting with others and to be working with our hands as well as our minds.

So, just disconnect.

We've now deleted most of our social media profiles, not only personal, but even for this blog. It’s one of a reliable things we've ever done.

6. Fast

We honestly feel like we should’ve started the list of healthy habits for more energy and focus with this one first. It is life-changing.

We are surrounded by excess. And we are distracting and numbing our true selves with things that bring us comfort. But when you remove those things, you’re left with the good stuff, with the real things. The things that matter. And the more you remove the less you’ll find you need. Fasting is basically a way to remove distractions, in order to make space for better things.

Fasting has both spiritual and at this point, many proven physical benefits. It can actually change your brain and your gut microbiome and helps to build your self-discipline and inner strength too.

So if you’re feeling confused, lethargic, overwhelmed, all over the place, lazy, it might be time to fast.

You can do a fast for 24 hours, fast intermittently for 16 hours every day or go for longer periods of time. And fast from both – food and entertainment. Or whatever else you need to let go of. Make sure to ask your doctor before you start, as fasting is definitely not for everyone (especially if you have diabetes).

7. Have a plan and Take Action

If you’re an overthinker like us, this is one of the must-do healthy habits for more energy and focus. You’ve probably heard about decision fatigue and well, making a plan will get rid of this thing.

A simple plan for the week or the day will take so much stress off of you. And stress as you might know is not good for your health + it wastes A LOT of energy. Not to mention that it’s harder to think clearly and stay focused when you’re stressed out and don’t know what you’re doing.

Have a plan, make a decision up front and then take action (because you want to avoid procrastination). Spend 10-15 minutes either in the morning or after work and plan the next day. We usually plan in weeks. So every Friday afternoon, we'd make a plan – what do we do for work, for fun, even exercise.

Whether it’s deciding what you’re going to wear tomorrow, what you’re gonna eat, which workout you’ll do & when you’ll do it – when you decide upfront – you’ll be more focused and won’t waste your energy on decisions that aren’t that important.

We know for us, when we had this workout plan we stuck to it. We did our workouts at the same time every morning. We didn’t spend a second overthinking whether this is the right workout to do or not. Which otherwise we do often. We simply made a decision up front and followed through.

But here’s the key: we were willing to try, and we didn’t have regrets. If we didn’t enjoy a workout – we'd make a note and not repeat it.

Things won’t always go as planned, but to us even if 50% go as planned it’s still worth it.