Back to reality

Hello, fellow thinker!

As I sit down to write this week's letter, I find myself reflecting on the past few weeks. The reason I took last week off was because I had so much to do—unpacking, getting ready, and battling jet lag. But more than anything, I was still riding the high from what seemed like the best vacation of my life. This vacation was filled with bonding moments with my family that I will cherish forever. You feel like you're on cloud nine when you're on vacation, like you're at the top of the world, the king of the castle.

Everyday stress from life and work can compound, making us feel overworked, tired, and less creative. The more time we spend in that cycle, the less excited and hopeful we become. But when I came back from my vacation, I brought back that new hustle energy. It made me feel like I could dominate the world again. I felt unstoppable and ready to scale mountains.

For a little while, I lost myself. The last several years, I've been working so hard, focusing on work, saving, and hitting goals. The routine made me numb. It felt like the best of me, that fresh energy in my soul, was being used up at work and traded in for money in the form of a paycheck. It's sad because that energy wasn't available for my own endeavors, my family, or any creativity I wanted to explore outside of work. Because it's not all about work, is it? Or is it? I don't think so.

During my travels, I met entrepreneurs and people with a lot of money who had a different energy. They don't have that routine. They have that hustle energy. They're not bound by limits; they're in control and have power and energy that they can influence. Not that they have an easy life, but it seems like they have more control over their energy.

It’s that same energy that I felt like I was trading in for a paycheck that decided to come back after a couple days on vacation. I was able to be creative. I had the capacity to have new conversations with people, and it really did feel like my batteries were recharged. But now that it's been a week since I’ve been back, I finally feel like I’ve been grounded again, and I’m back to that old energy before I went on vacation. It’s time for me to get emotionally invested again in my work. But I wish there was a way to keep that vacation energy alive or be able to toggle it on and off on demand. Perhaps that's the key to happiness—having control and agency over your own energy, your spirit, and the essence of who you are at the core.

I don't have an answer to this yet, but it's something I'm thinking about. If any of my readers have any suggestions, I'm open to hearing them.

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