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- Hints on How to Combat Fatigue
- Assessment
- • Think about your personal energy stores as a "bank." Deposits and withdrawals have to be made over the
- course of the day or the week to ensure a balance between energy conservation, restoration and expenditure.
- • Keep a diary for one week to identify the time of day when you are either most fatigued or have the most
- energy. Note what you think may be the contributing factors.
- • Be alert to the warning signs of impending fatigue—tired eyes, tired legs, whole-body tiredness, stiff shoulders,
- decreased energy or a lack of energy, inability to concentrate, weakness or malaise , boredom or lack of
- motivation, sleepiness, increased irritability, nervousness, anxiety or impatience.
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- Activity & Exercise Patterns
- • Identify which activities or situations make your fatigue worse or better and develop a plan to pace yourself.
- Schedule activities according to your fatigue and energy patterns, scheduling them ahead of time during the day
- and throughout the week to avoid becoming unusually tired.
- • Plan adequate rest and sleep periods so you can recover your energy before undertaking more activities.
- • Select the activities that are most important for you or that give you the most pleasure and do these activities
- first. Let the others go or delegate them to others.
- • Try to feel less guilty about restructuring your life to do what is most important for you and what gives you
- the most pleasure.
