Energy

I'm freaking busy, and there's a lot of shit I want to do. I spend 10-12 hours on a given weekday at my office, and I try to get 6-7 hours of sleep. There goes a big chunk. I try to get in the water any chance I get, usually before work. I'm trying to pick up kiting. I like to go out with friends. I enjoy eating. Then there's a whole slew of other things I'd like to do: learn to play guitar better, learn more about technical topics that relate to my work, read books, etc etc.

To do all that stuff, and to do it all at a high level, it comes down to having sufficient energy. Prahna, Chi, Get Up and Go, the Force, call it what you will. The more of it you have, the more you can accomplish at a high level. So I've been thinking about how 90% of ones energy level is circular. For example, doing the things you love energizes you, which enables you to do more of what you love at a higher level. This cycle can work virtuously where you do a lot of what you love, which naturally gives you an energy boost, which helps you perform better at everything you do, which causes you to love what you're doing that much more, and the cycle continues. Obviously, this works in the opposite scenario. If you allow things to dominate your time that you don't enjoy, you can live in a constant state of energy depletion which is hard to break since breaking that cycle requires having the energy to do the stuff you love.

Surfing is such a prime example of this for me. When I get a good surf in before work, I feel energized, which helps me perform at a high level at work, which gives me further energy in the satisfaction of accomplishments. So there ya go if you needed more reasons to surf.