E.N.E.R.G.Y

Fulfilling your dreams; what an assignment, such a responsibility!

What happens when you’ve been bound in one direction but suddenly find yourself dispirited, ambling toward a future you have lost the desire to obtain?
It happens so often nowadays, we become bored with our chosen career track, a bit blasé. Stoical, we get up every morning and hoist ourselves up on that treadmill and begin the mundane working day. It’s difficult to find the energy to start over, to begin everything again and your anxiety, the inevitable reservations you have, zap even more energy, spent worrying.

Energy, besides being the name of a Taiwanese pop boy band, is, by definition, the physical capacity to perform work, the ability to make something happen.
But we’re so programmed these days to achieve, achieve, achieve! No time for error or failure, you should know in your last couple of years of high school exactly what you want and where you wish to go.
And it’s great if you do, but a lot of the time we just choose the lesser of evils and go with it. Get a degree or diploma in business when what we really want to do is write, or paint.
And then we wake up 3 years later with the stark realization that we are unfulfilled and desperate to break free.
And what comes with that realization? An immense amount of fear.
And if we have been working hard in those years we’re also left beat and burned out.

Energy, like courage, is imperative to your contentment.

Take Joaquin Phoenix, a well respected, award winning actor who has admitted that he cares very little for the acting process and has decided to pursue a career in Hip Hop music. Although rumours are rife that it is all a big joke, which I would imagine is not the greatest compliment, as his talent in this area remains to be seen, he remains hell bent on proving them wrong.
More and more I hear of people changing, or wishing to change their choices, but just how easy is it? Sure, for someone like Joaquin Phoenix it is easier because he has the financial stability to pursue his untapped dreams, but he also risks losing credibility – Hollywood is, after all, extreme in its unforgiving nature. Not unlike many other industries out there.

All we have is our energy, but where is this elusive commodity?

So often we waste energy on things we don’t need. We go through life accumulating stuff – mostly unnecessary – using precious energy in the process. We then proceed to form attachments to said things and find it difficult to discard them.
We put them in order, build shelves for them, and move them around from one place to another even though we no longer have any real use for them. Stuff piles up, almost suffocating us. Excess baggage is nothing but a burden blocking our energy.
Get rid of the clutter, you tell yourself, that Chinese inspired top you’ve had since you were 16, the one you keep around just in case such an event arises in which you will absolutely need to wear it, that friendship which isn’t so much a friendship anymore but an obligation that zaps your energy, activities which become too much. We also have more energy when we can let go of past injustice, resentments and pain. Holding onto anger takes an immense amount of energy – letting go can set you free.
You’ve been wasting so much energy thinking about doing that tax return that’s been lying on your kitchen counter for the past 5 weeks instead of just doing it; the satisfaction of having done it will unblock the energy flow for sure. So why don’t you just sit down and get started? The chores we don’t do make us more tired than the ones we actually manage to do.

So, in conclusion, adopt Nike's famous and so true slogan: Just do it!
What have you got to lose, really?