As my own work gets busier and busier, I realise that simple willpower is not the thing that will save me. It’s not simply that I am doing more of the work that I know - making me busy - but rather my practice continues to evolve and stretch me in new ways.
So clearly I must adapt.
Part of this for me is the realisation that ‘time’ and ‘energy’ are not the same thing.
Some days I lack time, but have energy.
Other days I have time, but lack the energy.
And I don’t mean that I’m being lazy (although sometimes I am just being lazy) - more that creative output requires creative input, and this is a source that is not endless. We earn and build the energy that we spend.
Use your sixty seconds today to consider this, as we close out our week: how do you ‘earn’ your energy?
Is it by walking on your morning commute, or claiming a quite ten minutes at coffee time? Is it through the energy of others, that somehow recharges you? Is it by deadlines or urgency that somehow mobilises you? Or something else?
I’ve been erratic with my work in this space this week - not for lack of time, but rather an imbalance of energy. So will try to do better next week, but I realise that if I do not invest in my practice, then that is a hollow promise, or simply an aspiration.
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