Energy - The Real Currency of Life
My least favorite course in high school was Physics. Mr. Jacob, from India, was a good man with a very distinctive accent, yet, because this course was required, I sat through many classes learning about Newton’s Laws and other components of the course. As I think about the direction that this post (and others over the next few weeks) will take, and reflecting upon what I learned from that class, I discovered that I am drawn to “energy” – though in a different way than one may assume.
According to my physics class, energy is the capacity to do work. If that is truly the case, it is safe to say that energy is the currency we use to “pay” for life. As I have mentioned before, “time” isn’t what we must manage from day to day; it is energy. How we manage our energy (replenish it, use it, and conserve it) determines how successful and whole our days are. If we expend all our energy at “work”, we come home with nothing left to give to our children and our spouses, for instance. Likewise, if we expend all our energy on our personal lives, our professional lives suffer from neglect.
If we are to make the most and the best out of life, we need to be careful where we expend, for instance, our mental energy. Worrying is simply meditating on the negative. If we use the energy we expend on worrying to think of positively creative ways to handle life and its challenges, we will find ourselves happier and more focused. Use it on fear or worry, and we will find ourselves miserable and drained....
So, where have you been expending your energy lately?
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