Feeling low on energy but still want to move your business forward? Tune into this episode where we'll dive into:

How to identify your low energy patterns (and why that matters)
Practical ways to prep your life and business ahead of time for slower days
A list of low-lift business tasks you can do without burning out
Why low energy days can actually be your creative superpower
Simple mindset shifts to stop judging yourself and start working with your energy, not against it

Low Energy? Here’s What I Actually Do on Those Days in My Business

We all have them, those low-energy days or weeks where even thinking feels like too much. Whether it’s your cycle, emotional stuff, grief, burnout, or just general fatigue, these stretches of time can make productivity feel impossible. So what do you actually do when you're feeling drained but still want to move forward in your business?

Inspired by a thoughtful question from podcast listener Molly, today I’m sharing exactly how I navigate low-energy days in real life, what I do, what I skip, and how I keep the momentum going without burning out.

Molly asked, “I would love more resources on planning for low energy days. I would love to know more about exactly what you might be doing on a low energy day. What things do you feel still move you forward in your business or at least make you feel that way, on days when you really just want to lay on the couch and stare at the ceiling?”

First: Normalize Low Energy

If you’ve ever found yourself staring at the ceiling, feeling completely wiped out and wondering how you’re going to get anything done, you’re not alone and there’s nothing wrong with you. Low energy days are part of the human experience. For me, they tend to follow cycles, monthly rhythms, seasonal shifts, or emotional anniversaries like my dad’s passing.

Over time, I’ve stopped trying to eliminate these days and instead started planning around them. That shift alone can be game-changing.

Define What “Low Energy” Means for You

For me, low energy can look like:

Struggling to find words or access the “smart” parts of my brain
Feeling emotionally drained and overstimulated
Lacking the patience for techy or detailed work
Needing more breaks, more snacks, or more naps

Getting specific about how these days show up for you helps you prepare better—and removes judgment from the equation.

Prep Ahead for Your Low Energy MOMENTS

The key is creating systems and safety nets that support you when you’re running on empty. Some of my go-tos:

Grab-and-go meals and snacks: Think frozen lasagna, grape nuts and bananas, or anything you can nuke or eat without thinking.
Lists of “low energy” tasks: Having a written checklist of easy-to-do items means I don’t waste precious energy deciding what to work on.
Snack carts or “go bags”: Little baskets of journals, pens, protein bars, whatever helps you function with minimal effort.

My Go-To Low Lift Business Projects

These are the kinds of tasks I save for low energy days—they don’t require a lot of brainpower, but they still move things forward.

Updating podcast episode blog posts: I’ll reformat transcripts, update graphics, or rework SEO on older episodes.
Fixing broken links or outdated info on landing pages, emails, or course platforms.
Organizing my Canva account (hello, renamed screenshots) and decluttering my downloads folder.
Checking on students in my courses or support spaces—offering encouragement or quick feedback.
Repurposing old content: I’ll pull quotes from transcripts, draft a newsletter idea, or rework a past podcast into a new topic.
Recording voice memos to my future self: If I can’t figure something out, I’ll talk through it out loud. Later, I’ll revisit it with a clearer mind.

Movement, Play, and Permission to Pause

Sometimes your low energy self needs more than a checklist. Here’s what I also allow:

Deep cleaning a room (especially the kitchen, my brain can’t think in a messy space)
Going for a slow walk or hopping on the treadmill
Playing old-school Roller Coaster Tycoon on my Switch
Taking a bath or laying in bed with my bulldog Bella
Simply doing nothing and letting my brain wander

These “non-productive” activities often spark new clarity or ideas. Some of my best decisions have come from moments of rest, not hustle.

Final Thoughts: Let Slower Seasons Support You

Your low energy days aren’t the enemy—they’re messengers. They’re asking you to pause, to shift, to look inward.

By preparing ahead, redefining productivity, and embracing a slower pace when needed, you’ll not only protect your energy but also create space for deeper clarity and better decisions in your life and business.

If you loved this episode, I’d love to hear what you do on low energy days. And remember: being tired doesn’t mean you’re failing. Sometimes it just means you’re human.

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You are listening to episode 217 of the Mindful Productivity podcast. I'm your host, Sarah Steckler. And this week, I want to talk about low lift projects that you can use for low energy weeks. What do you do when you have low energy days? How do you still move forward in your business, get things done, and not completely drop the ball on everything? Well, this week, I'm going to be sharing some of the real things I do and don't do when I'm in a low energy state. This can be mentally, emotionally physically, regardless of why, I'm going to be talking to you about how. Let's go ahead and get into it. Welcome to the Mindful Productivity podcast. I'm your host, Sarah Steckler, and this is the place to be to live a more mindful and productive life. If you're ready to turn daily chaos into calm and start your days with intention, then get ready to join me as we dive deep into mindful living and personal productivity. It's time to connect with your true self so you can live the life you want to live. And it all starts now. Welcome back to the podcast, friends.
I'm excited for this week's episode because I think it'll be fun to have a very tangible conversation around actions that you can take during low energy periods in your life and business, and also brainstorm some tangible actions that you can take. So by sharing all this with you, I hope that it's helpful. I also really wanted to highlight that today's episode was inspired by one of our listeners, Molly. So I send out feedback forms after launches that I do, and I routinely send out a form to my newsletter subscribers asking them if there's anything they want me to cover. And if you want to be a part of that process, join my community or get those emails, you can always sign up for the newsletter by going over to Sarahsteckler. Com/newsletter. But anyway, Molly sent in a form, and I wanted to read you what she wrote, and then we'll dive into today's episode. But it was such a thoughtful question, and I think it's really timely, too. So she said, I would love more resources on planning for low energy days. I would love to know more about exactly what you might be doing on a low energy What things do you feel still move you forward in your business, or at least make you feel that way on days when you really just want to lay on the couch and stare at the ceiling?
First of all, thank you so much, Molly, for sending in that question. And it's very real. And I can tell you, just full transparency, that I have quite a few of these days every month. Some of that absolutely has to do with my cycle. Other times it has to do with my own CBTSD or just processing different things. But I used to really try to fight those energy days or be like, how can I minimize them or get rid of them completely? And now it's more, how can I get curious about the repetitiveness of them, the cycle of them, why they show up, when they show up? Sometimes it is more cyclical and I can start to know a week ahead of time, I think I'm going to need to take it easier next week. And then other times it's more like a seasonal thing. For me, I have the death anniversary of my dad in June. Well, it's a couple of different days, like when he passed, when his birthday is in June, but May, June, that time frame, there's usually a couple of days in there where the grief surfaces, right? So knowing when those areas in your life might surface.
And again, it could be a cycle that's monthly, it could be a quarterly thing, annual, but just getting to know that and doing so without judgment and really being like, this is just when I notice I'm more emotionally drained or I don't have as much physical energy, any of those things. So I just wanted to point that out before we get into ways that you can cope with it or manage those days. I also think it's really important to define what a low energy day really looks like, right? And again, this comes back to journaling and tracking things. If you don't already have my Energy Driver Habit Tracker, that's a really helpful resource as well. It'll help you pinpoint days when you're doing things consistently or not. I also have another podcast episode on that as well. You can find that at Sarahsteckler. Com/energy. But in there, I talk about different things that you can do to drive your energy and maintain it. But what I want to say and this is a big but, is even when you're on top of the ball, you're still going to have a lower energy day. So I guess there's two things here.
It's really giving yourself permission that it's okay and normal and human to have lower energy days. And it's also important to define them. So for me, a low energy day usually manifestsates in a few different ways. It can mean that I don't have access to certain things, whether that's actual physical energy, like I'm just too drained and I need nap. But it can also mean that I don't have access to my brain. And that's the phrase I use. And what it really means is there are just days when I will look at things I've created or I will be going back and auditing content and courses. And I'll have this moment of like, did I make that? Who is that smart person? Because I don't feel that way at all. And that's really one thing that alerts me like, hey, you're in a low energy state when it's just harder to find the words. I can't seem to think as well. And that can also just be a sign, right, that I do need a break and I do need rest. So low energy days for me, just to reiterate, not having access to the most deal parts of myself.
Sometimes, too, that just means patience. And sometimes that's really important. If I'm doing a lot of back-end tech stuff in my business, I need to have patience. And if I don't or if I'm having a low energy moment, that can mainly going to mean that I'm going to make more mistakes or there's going to be more oversights. So sometimes it's actually important to not work at all if that's the option, when you're having a low energy day. But that wasn't Molly's question. So I actually want to get into some of the things I do during low energy days. So what am I doing? And one thing to all preface this with is that the more you can sink into routines, the more that that's going to solidify a safety net of pre-made decisions for you. Because if there's already things that you regularly do in your business every day, whether you have different time blocks throughout your day or theme days throughout your week, I love having podcast batching theme days or usually towards the end of the week, like Friday, sometimes even Mondays. I like having a day where I'm just learning, like I'm going through courses or something like that.
And this changes quarterly for me. I It's not set in stone. You can move things around. But the more you can find a routine, especially if it's just a small dose of your day. So I think a lot of people get caught up in, well, if I'm going to set a routine for my business, I don't know if I want to have a five to five thing where it's like, if 5: 00 AM, you get up and you do this and every hour of the day is accounted for. Routines don't have to be that way. Even just having a morning routine that you do, that's not not even necessarily tied to a specific time, but just within the first hour of your day, these are the things you're doing and the order that you're doing them in can be life changing. So lean into routines. Having a solid evening routine can be really nice, too. And a couple of episodes back, I talked about some of those. I'll link everything in the show notes as well. But even just having a solid evening routine that helps you wind down, that helps you close the book, so to on your business or your job or working.
And these are things I seasonally like to change, right? Because if it's spring or summer, then maybe I'll add in an outdoor activity or walk to my evening routine versus if it's colder, maybe I'm having a cup of tea. You get the idea. But really, those pre-made decisions will help you on the low energy day. So prepping ahead of time for low energy days and actually even creating a project list or just a checklist of things that you can do on low energy days is great because then it's less of, oh, I'm a loser or I'm failing at my business because I'm not doing all the stuff I meant to do. Instead, it's like it's just a shift, right? Oh, we're having a low energy day, so we're going to do this instead, right? When you get the stomach flu, oh, I guess we're not eating regular meals right now because I don't feel so great. I guess we're going to have some Gatorade and some saltine crackers, right? It's just a shift. And I So I just think that mindset's really, really helpful. So here are some of the things I made a little list of some of the things I do to prep ahead of time.
So at any given time, I like to have easy freezer meals and grab and go snacks that are just readily available for me when I do notice I have these low energy days. Because not only can I not make decisions in my business on those days, but then I also just seem to lose executive functioning skills. So knowing it's like you've got an egg and cheese a frozen burrito in the fridge, you can nuke or you've got grape nuts and a banana. It's really easy. I even keep a list on my fridge of just quick meals and I can use those ideas whenever I just can't. Or just Foods that, for the most part, I'm never going to get tired of eating. And I can just go to those. So even just like one of the things I always tell my husband is we always need a frozen lasagna in the freezer at any time, because if there's a day when I'm just like, I he doesn't want to cook or he doesn't want to pick something up, that's the meal. That's the plan. Easy. It avoids us being tempted by pizza or DoorDash. It saves us money.
And it's just really easy to throw in the microwave or the oven, right? So basic stuff. But also having little... If this applies to you, but sometimes it can be helpful to have ready to go Zip lock bags filled with things that make sense. So one of my other favorite podcasters and friend, Laurie. She runs the Improviding Life podcast. I hired her actually a couple of years ago now. She coached me for a few weeks when I was in this really low energy place. And one of the things that she recommended me doing was creating... I have those craft carts that have the wheels on them. And she was like, just put together some plastic baskets in there, make a snack cart, put journals in there, pens, anything you can just wheel around the house you or put in a room. We're just easy grab and go stuff. So you don't have to think. If there's a day and you just don't feel like cooking, it's also totally okay to have just multiple snacks throughout the day versus a meal because then you're still getting nutrients, you're still eating, you're still doing that. So I continued that idea on.
And sometimes I'll make like Zip-Log bags for just different mental states I'm in or different things that are going on. Something I can grab really quickly with different stuff. I'm also in the back of my mind. I'm thinking of we have, I always have a go bags in our trunk as a caveat, just because wherever we've lived, wildfires, all kinds of stuff, you want to be prepped and ready to go. So You tell me maybe what could go in a ziploc bag for a low energy day. But something like that is really, really nice. So, again, those are some of the things I do to prep. Now, when it comes to project planning for low energy days, I'm thinking of routine tasks and things I can do in my business that require doing, but not so much thinking. And this may be different for you depending on your mental state and how you define low energy for you. But for me, it's like, I can't think. I don't need to be making a decision or trying to create something or trying to put something together. I need to just be doing a repetitive thing in a chunk of time.
It's one of the reasons why I loved my first job. I worked at a dry cleaners and I both worked the front desk and I did cashier stuff and customer service, which was fine. But my real love of that job was pinning clothes because it was the same task. And on slow Saturdays when we didn't get a lot of customers, but we got a ton of drop off clothes, you could just be doing the same thing for hours. It was fantastic. Same with a job I had in college. I cataloged all these microfeesh and I would be down there for hours just scanning barcodes. My boss would come down there and be like, do you want to maybe take a break? And I'd be like, no, this is great. Those are absolutely tasks that I enjoy. So what are those things? So examples of this, and I want to come back to this question because Molly said specifically, what are things that help you, help move you forward in your business or at least make you feel that way? And that's key because I think there's both of those be true. But there's going to be things that you can do in your business that are quieter, quieter actions, right?
Back-end things that are not going to make a sale for you immediately, but in the long term scheme of things are going to help your business run smoother and look shinier, right? Look more presentable, more professional. So on these low energy days, those are some of the things that I'll get into, right? Like website updates. So as someone that has a ton of content on my website, and I'm still overhauling it slowly, I gave myself permission. I was like, you know what? We've updated the website, but not everything's updated yet. But how many people, let's be real, are really going back through every single site and are going to find an issue, right? Not very many. And if they do, it's not the end of the world, right? Maybe they think I'm not a real business owner or I'm unprofessional. Like, oh, no. But I really doubt it. Those are things I like to do. Specifically right now, I'm going back through all 200 plus episodes of the podcast and I'm creating blog. I'm repurposing the transcripts, getting the transcripts into the website, making a blog post out of it, going back and making social media graphics and posts from it, and then going in there and making sure all the same header graphics for all the podcast episodes are the same.
So I actually created a template in Canva. And then as I create new episodes, I obviously use that template. But I'm also going back slowly through all my episodes, because if you're going back through them or you're starting from the beginning, you might notice not every single episode has a transcript yet. And so I'm going back through there. I use Happy Scribe to transcribe my podcast, which at the time, this was years ago, that was one of the few automated tools that did that. Now I feel like with AI, there's probably thousands of them. I got a life I'm deal on AppSumo. I really like it. And so that's one of the first things I do is I'll go back through those episodes. And then also that involves downloading the SRT file and throwing that up into Buzz Sprout so that this podcast has the transcript as you're listening to it as well. So that's one of the things I'm doing on Low Energy Days. It's like an ongoing, really big project. And if I can tackle 10 to 20 episodes in an afternoon, then that makes me feel like, hey, that was productive, right?
It didn't necessarily make me a sale, but maybe also because you never know when people are listening to past evergreen content or reading something. And who knows, right? So That's how I view my podcast in terms of marketing, too, is it's really just a way to engage with all of you and continue conversations. People get to know me. They decide if they like me or they want to invest in something or not. That's cool. So that's one of the things. What else did I write here? Also checking backlinks on web pages. So I mean, I've been running my business for close to a decade now. So sometimes there's links to things that don't exist anymore. If you go way back into the beginning of my podcast, I reference things. I used to sell this organizational journal course that was really fun. It was basically like a bullet journal course, and I would do live rounds of it in a private Facebook group. And we'd basically go through the course together and everybody would share their pages. And it was really fun. Maybe I'll bring that course back at some point and sell it for a really low price.
I don't know. But I noticed when I was going back through the transcript on there, that links to teachable, and that doesn't even exist anymore for my business. So I definitely want to fix that. So fixing backlinks, also going back through old landing pages. I use lead pages for most of those. So going back and seeing, are those redirecting where they need to go? Because after a launch, ends, I'll redirect stuff places. And sometimes the page is redirected like six times and it's not as clean of a redirect. So maybe I need to update those links. And again, these are just back-end maintenance things that You can do in your business anyway. But these are also things I happen to do on low energy days. Making sure that forms and integrations in ConvertKit are connected. So every now and then I noticed, because I've used ConvertKit, which is now Kit. I wish they didn't change it. You ever notice when you're trying to search for a problem in Convert Kit now, and if you just search Kit, it doesn't come up? Anyway, why did they rebrand it? I don't know. But I will go back in there and make sure all my forms are working correctly because they did some update.
This was a long time ago, but some of my older forms no longer show the same data that the new ones do. So I've actually started going back through and redo Loving forms. And that also gives me new information on new subscribers for old opt-ins I've had from years ago, like my 101 self-care ideas. I revamped that form and updated that recently. So it's just a lot of going back because I think as a content creator and a business owner, we do a lot of things and then we move forward, right? Forgetting that things may change, software may be updated. So it's good to go back and check all those things. I do the same thing with my course platform, Member Vault. So I'll go in there and make sure different triggers and tags are working. A lot of my courses are gamified. So when people complete certain lessons or do certain things, they'll get emails or badges. And so I want to make sure all that stuff is still working, which for the most part it works really well. So kudos to all the software I'm using. But those are some of the techy things I do.
I also will see if There's fun improvements I can make for my students. So right now I've moved over all of my course platforms into Heartbeat. So we're off of Facebook groups, which I really like. And I think it's a lot of fun. It's been a slow... There's not as many people that are jumping over there. So it's a very small community right now in those spaces, which is nice for the students in there because they're going to have all of my attention. Pros and cons of using something off of Facebook, right But I'll often go through and be like, is there something fun I could do for my students? Like a fun new training or workshop, or is there something I want to cover? Right now, I'm doing monthly calls for both Wonderful Workspace and Publish with purpose. So every month we have a live call, usually Q&A. But also I'm like, oh, is there something fun I could talk about at the beginning of those calls? Like a fun update with Google Tasks or a new planner idea I'm thinking about that students could use, stuff like that. So on low energy days, it's a fun time to brainstorm.
And I know I said not thinking earlier, but I think idea generation and playing around with creative stuff can be different than trying to think of a strategy for your business. So I guess there obviously still is thinking in these lower energy days, but without the pressure to come to an end result, if that makes sense. It's really just like, oh, that might be nice, and then just capturing it. I also will use this time to check in on my support communities. Again, I'm in there pretty much every day, Monday through Friday. But if I'm having a lower energy day, I might get in there more or actually message certain students and be like, how's it going? Because people will tell me, I want to publish my plan or by this date. And sometimes I'll check on them and be like, how's it going? And they're like, I don't know. And so we'll talk things out. And that's fun. And then again, I'm giving myself permission to play around with a lot of these creative ideas. If my brain is feeling like I can come up with some ideas and I can make some decisions, then one of the things I will do is I will go in and repurpose content.
So I will go back through old blog posts or old podcast episodes, pull out the transcript, throw it into ChatGPT, and even ask it like, Hey, I I want to come up with a newsletter from this or is there a chunk of this that I could repurpose into something? And it's obviously a collaborative thing. And I'll take something out of there that I like and sometimes I'll repurpose that into another blog post or another newsletter. And it's not like I'm taking that idea from that moment and completing that task per se, completing that little write up, but I'm pulling out. It's like I'm seeding different idea. So sometimes I'll just open up a Google Doc, go back through past podcast episodes and create a brain dump of, here's how you could repurpose a lot of this stuff into newsletters or blog posts or social media posts. Or you could actually take this past podcast episode you did where you talked for five minutes on this one specific thing. You could take that five minutes and expand on that in a new podcast episode. So it's ideating, brainstorming, And what's nice about it is if I was having a regular energy day, I might push myself to go from idea to finished project.
Like, okay, cool, write a newsletter, schedule it out, make all the links, do this and that, or create a whole new podcast and record it. But on a low energy day, I don't pressure myself to do anything with it. I just get that idea out. So it's really just a quick little capture thing It's almost just like, instead of being like, I'm hungry, I need to make dinner and going on to Pinterest, finding something, going to the grocery store, getting all the ingredients, coming back and making it from scratch. Instead of that, a low energy task is just like browsing on Pinterest and being like, I like that and adding it to a board. That's it. And then just ordering something. So that's what I'm doing in my business. And not only is that productive, but It's not the whole thing to completion. And I just want to say that that's actually, even though it's a lonergy day and it's not completing something all the way, these days are extremely helpful and extremely productive because you're doing those things differently. Sometimes slowing down your creative process can be very helpful. I talk about this in my training that I do for...
Or I talk my Google Workspace course, Wonderful Workspace. When I was creating it, I actually took a four-month break from trying to finish it and was like, I got to take a step back and look at what's the most helpful process that I can walk my students through to be more productive and organized in their business with these Google tools. And so I took a four-week break. And because I took my foot off the gas, I was able to remove a lot of curriculum curriculum that, although helpful, wasn't going to get my students to their outcomes as fast. And that was really helpful. So these low energy days can actually be to your benefit because you're taking your foot off the gas. You're taking a deep breath. You're slowing down in your life in business for a minute, and you're able sometimes to make better decisions. And as an example, too, we had Right now, our Bulldog Bella is recovering from an enuculation procedure. We had to have her eye removed. It's so sad, but she's doing really well. And I'm actually more and more so happy that we made this decision. But when we first found out the decisions we were left with because she had a really horrible ulcer that just was not going to get better without a huge corneal graft and she has this dry eye issue.
Anyway, it was going to be so expensive and it wasn't even guaranteed that it would even work. And it was going to be like so much more... She'd already been through so much with her eye and it was like miserable watching her be in so much pain and hating it so much. And so we got all this information really quick. And you're emotional at that point. It's hard to make a decision. And I remember I felt like within 12 hours we were going from finding something out to scheduling a surgery for her. And I remember all of a sudden being like, whoa, why are we going so fast? Why are we at this specialist just going on their timeline where we actually have a little bit more time? So I got to pump the brakes and I got a second opinion somewhere. And I was so glad I did because we ended up making a very different decision for her. And it ended up working out really, really well for so many reasons. So I guess in sharing that story, it's this reminder that if you're your mind, body, soul, brain, whatever is telling you, I'm just I need a day where I'm not doing much in my business.
Sometimes that's for the best because it gives you a chance to just breathe, decompress. And when you come out of that state, you might actually find, oh, I don't actually want to launch this this way. I don't want to do this certain thing this certain way. I actually have a better idea. So really just lean in, I guess, is what I'm saying. When you do feel this way, instead of judging yourself about it, really lean in because it can be so incredibly helpful. So I think, yeah, I covered some of the back-end stuff I do. Another thing I do, and this was a new update to the iPhone Although I always wait to a month out for iPhone updates, mainly because I cannot believe how much space they take up. But there's always some bug. So I waited four months, this is crazy, to update my iPhone. But when I finally did recently, there's a new update in the voice memos, where when you record yourself on your phone, it automatically transcribes it, and then you can actually copy and paste the text from it. So this is fantastic because now on Lower Energy Days, I can actually record myself, basically talking to my future self.
So this is something that I'll do. And I've done this for so long. I used to actually use Voxer for it. There's a memo section. You can send messages to yourself. But if I have a question in my business or something I can't figure out, I will record myself asking that and be like, what? Here's what I'm trying to do. Ideally, I would get in I have this many people. I would have this conversion rate, but I can't figure out blah, blah, blah, blah, if I should offer it this way or if I should do this. And I'll just blah, talk it all out as if I'm talking to a coach. I'll save that voice memo. And then when I'm feeling, I'll put it like a... I'll add it to my tasks or something in Google Tasks. And if I am feeling better a week from then or whenever, I'll go in there and relisten to that. And it's always amazing to me how after a good night's sleep or after a week of feeling better or just being in a different place in my life, I'll listen to something like that from not that long ago and be like, oh, this is so easy.
This is totally what I would do. So Don't, I guess, don't overlook your future self. Don't overlook the fact that the person that you may actually need to be speaking to is yourself just in a different mental state, in a different place in your life, right? And it doesn't have to be years out. It could be days, weeks, months. And that could be really, really helpful. So that's one of the other things I wanted to talk about. Also giving in to rest on these days. Take a long bath. I'll often get back into bed with my Bulldog, and I'm totally obsessed with the classic Roller Coaster Tycoon that they recently released on the Nintendo Switch. So I'll play that for an hour or two. And even just having that break just really helps me so much. And some of these things may feel, quote unquote, unproductive because you're not working and you're taking a break, but it's actually really giving your brain a huge break and allowing yourself to process stuff in the background, right? Because sometimes after these breaks, that's when we come up with the answers, the strategies or the new product ideas that you never would otherwise.
Longer G days are also usually a sign, and I said this, where you really do need a break or a shift in your routine or something different. So listen in, right? Because every month you might need to be working differently. Every quarter or every season, you may need to shift up what you're doing, what your energy drivers are, how much sleep you're getting. Maybe you need more sleep in the winter than the summer, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? Other things I love to do on low energy days. And also don't forget that even when you're feeling low energy, sometimes moving your body can actually produce more energy and help your mind, right? So I love to organize the house or do a deep clean, go back through my office, pick it up. If I'm feeling a certain way. I always tell my husband, the heart of the kitchen, I'm sorry, the heart of the home is the kitchen. And if it's messy, I can't think. So sometimes I'll go clean the kitchen. Sometimes my mind will be buzzing, but my body will be really tired or vice versa. And I find that going on a walk, even on my treadmill, even if I'm physically tired, helps switch up that energy, if you will, if that makes sense.
It helps me get out of my head or get out of my body and can really just help me level things out. Look for ways to optimize your life and business. Are there decisions that you can make while you're lying around? Again, I say this all the time, but some of the best decisions I make are when I'm in the bathtub. Are there things that while you're lying on the sofa and staring at the ceiling, can you research? Can you get a notebook and journal or write down? Can you look up things on your phone? If you're trying to find a new course platform that you want to use, can When you go through Reddit and read reviews while you're on your phone versus doing that at your desk or at the library, right? What are things that you can do? So give yourself permission. If you need to be horizontal for the day, do it. But don't forget that you can also do things on a tablet or on your phone if you need to. Other things I do is I will go through and declutter the downloads folder on my desktop. I will work on cleaning up my Canva account.
On a low energy day. A few weeks ago, I actually went through and renamed a bunch of photos in Canva. Yikes. You don't realize how disorganized you are until you've been running a business for nearly a decade. And there's all these photos in Canva that just say screenshot and you can't search for anything. So I did that. And then if you really do want to feel better, sometimes what I will do is I will email my list with a special offer or even a flash sale. So there have absolutely been times when I've had a slower month. Usually it's August is my slow month in my business. In years past, sometimes I'll send out an email be like, hey, I'm going to do this. I think the last one I did that was really big like that was I offered a special price for Publish with Purpose to my email list for 48 hours. That included a one on one call with me. And I think I had two or three people jump on it. So that was a quick way to do a cash injection. But obviously, you want to be mindful of that.
You don't want to do that all the time. But that's absolutely something you can do. You don't have to discount things necessarily. You can add in a bonus call or you can do a new offer or pre-sell something. But those are absolutely things I'll do. The last tip I have for you for things that you can do on these days is I like to go I'm going to go back through all of my past brain dumps. So I have my Daily Productivity and Brain Dump book. I will go back through a bunch of them and I'll actually circle or highlight smart ideas I had or projects that I want to come back to. And in the back section of the brain dump book, there's blank brain dump template pages and then column lists. And I'll actually take, so I'll move, migrate, if you will, those things, those highlighted sections, and I'll move them into those columns. And I'll either have a column for product ideas and then usually projects I want to prioritize. So I'll take those and move them to that section. And that lets me know, hey, you went through this whole brain dump book or this section of it and you've pulled out these ideas.
Everything else not really relevant or important anymore. But these things were like little gold nuggets that you want to come back to. So it reintroduces my brain to the past stuff. And it usually gives me an opportunity to see things from new angles, too, because I'll come back and be like, oh, that was a cool idea. But that was before I was doing it this way. So now I can do it like this. Those are just some different ideas. Regardless, I hope that this helped you brainstorm some things. I would love to hear from you if there are certain tasks or projects that you do when you're having low energy periods in your life and business. And just if I can leave you with anything, it's listen to yourself, listen to your body, listen to your brain. If you need to have a slower day, then do it. It's worth it. And in the long run, it will actually benefit you more than you know. Thank you so much for listening to this week's episode of the podcast. We have new episodes here every Monday, and I will see you again next week.