Trying is exhausting because outcomes never matched effort. When you gave everything and it was not enough, when trying led only to more trying—persistence became punishment. Now you are tired before you begin because beginning reminds you of all the effort that did not work.
Exhaustion from trying comes from chronic disappointment. When you learned that effort does not guarantee outcome, when hard work led only to more hard work—you lost faith that trying matters. Now you are depleted by the mere thought of beginning.
Living tired means accepting defeat before fighting, refusing to try because trying hurt too much, feeling despair about possibility of change.
Trying again means believing that past failure does not predict future outcome, allowing yourself hope despite history, taking one more step even when steps have failed before.
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Content informed by trauma research, polyvagal theory (Stephen Porges), somatic experiencing (Peter Levine), and nervous system regulation studies. For comprehensive citations and further reading, see Unfiltered Wisdom: The Book.
About the Author
Robert Greene is the author and founder of Unfiltered Wisdom, a US Navy veteran, and a trauma survivor with over 10 years of experience in nervous system regulation and somatic healing. He is certified in Yoga for Meditation from the Yogic School of Mystic Arts (Dharamsala, India, 2016) and affiliated with Holistic Veterans, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit serving veterans in Santa Cruz, California.