Seasonal allergies can be debilitating.

Head pressure and fatigue are my primary symptoms.

It makes thinking extremely challenging, let alone taking action on the thoughts I’m trying to think — clearly.

What Solutions Are Available?

Here are a handful of things I do to keep thriving in business, even when I absolutely DO NOT feel like doing anything.

This list will also serve as a reminder of what to do when I’m feeling poor.

When feeling icky, it can be hard to re-remember all the little things I do to keep myself moving

1. Do it anyway.

The bottom line is just do it anyway.

If you have things to do, then just do it.

Do it first thing in the morning.

Just get it done.

Then you can relax for the day.

2. Hire contractors to cover you.

Continue to hire contractors to do more and more of the work.

Currently, my main role is client facing where I interact with clients all day long — whether via email or live video chat.

3. Don’t worry.

Since I typically work seven days per week, I don’t worry about taking two or three (or more) days off.

I typically don’t like telling clients that I’m taking a sick day or making excuses for not getting the work done.

Whenever I set deadlines, I always make sure I give myself plenty of time to do the work, even if sick days come up.

Remembering not to stress out about not feeling good helps. Stressing out about not feeling good tends to just stack the back feeling.

Don’t force yourself to perform beyond what you’re capable of based on how you feel. If you feel a level five and you’re giving your level five effort, then technically, you’re giving 100% of your effort.

Go to bed early and sleep in a wee-bit extra. Sleep is important to feeling better, and faster.

4. Get up and do physical work.

If my brain isn’t working and I don’t feel like sitting down doing heavy thinking computer work, I’m finding that getting up to do any type of physical task helps me feel less bad.

5. Eat good and drink lots of water.

Simple enough.

Eating those tiny oranges tends to feel really good.

Forcing myself to drink water, even when I don’t feel like it, feels good

6. Plan ahead and get ahead.

Quite possibly the hardest part about feeling bad is thinking.

I don’t have as much of a problem doing work that I already have planned out or with deadlines I already have set or when clients are hitting demanding quick turnaround on tasks.

Remembering to do the work I planned out can also be challenging.

Clients don’t tend to have issues when I don’t respond to them, that day.

Depending on the promises I make to clients on what deliverables will be completed and when tend to determine how much I’m able to reliably focus on a given task.

However, if I don’t have any client demands or deadlines for the day, I tend to hesitate on being proactive at getting ahead and making sure I don’t have to scramble to next day or so.

Not doing proactive work also means I probably don’t get to bill as much for the week.

This is where having work planned WAY ahead and having contractors doing the work can be super helpful.

I need to get to the point where I have contractors doing work at least one week in advanced.

I also need to start thinking about hiring an assistant to organize and handle client communications.

I want to wake up to an assistant having outlined and organized bullet points of critical client communications ready for me to simply approve — and then having them delegate the tasks to the appropriate contractor.

Once I have this level of automation, I’ll then be able to start focusing on scaling the business, working on systems, attracting new clients, closing new clients, upselling current clients, retaining current clients, etc.

Then, then next step after I get the work automated, it sounds like I’ll then need to start focusing on building out a sales department.