How Can I Create More Energy | 5/16/21

Finishing up getting my apartment exactly how I want it. Got a bedside table, an accent item blue chair, purchased a coffee table that I'll get on Wednesday and assembled my desk. Glad I go the table siz I did cuz it can fit snug into the corner of the living room with still space to scoot in.

Continuation of idea dump now.

If I leave room for something, it's going to get filled. If there's space in my list journal for a section, it's going to get filled up. That's what happened repeatedly over the span of a week. Kept quickly iterating. And then even within each section, if I number them, there'll always be something for me to write in. Even if usually it doesn't take up that volume when I prenumber beforehand. Same with space in free form journal on pages that end the day's entry. I'll usually write in my ideas that I want to write about at some point. Hence this idea dump. How can I use this to my advantage? If the last page of the entry has space, that's fine - use that. If there's several days in a row that are completely utilized, then I can create an ideas page that should be good for a week or so. Again, this is similar to the Thought Vault so I'll have to reconcile that. Just another step in the process.

How can I create more energy? Since I know that digestion takes a lot of our energy, that's why I feel sleepy in the afternoon if I eat stuff that is heavy and intensive for the digestive tract. So not only the food that I eat, but also how I eat it. I'd already know that I should be chewing slowly and intentionally everything that I eat. And that it would help with digestion. But by synthesizing these, if I actually take more time to purposefully and with focus chew my food, I'll create more energy throughout the whole day. That means not doing other activities that take my awareness away from chewing. It's going to take an initial higher activation energy b/c I've trained my mind until now to watcha nd listen to things while eating. I give myself the illusion that I'm learning something but actually, I'm just planting the imprint of lack of focus and awareness that carries into other aspects of my life. Also, I intentionally chose 'higher activation energy' instead of 'it's going to be difficult' b/c every time we say that, it actually does become more difficult to us. We made that happen. Hence, life is easy! :)

I've also realized I can share all my secrets, knowledge, process, value with the world. All the wisdom that I've accumulated, I can share freely and openly without any inhibition or fear of someone 'stealing my ideas', or 'having negative ulterior motives.' It's so freeing having that feeling. No one is actually going to do all the things I'm doing or learn what I'm learning. And if they do 'copy what I'm doing,' that means I'm doing something right lol.

I think one of the reasons that I have to be even more intentional with my networking is cuz dad didn't do that as transparently from my perspective. Of course traveling didn't help with visibility into that growing up. I've known theoretically since middle school that networking is important to grow professionally and personally. However, I've never actually done it that well at any stop on my career. I think a contributing factor to that was I never saw my dad do it. Or even the results of it where I'd ever hear about or meet those folks. Of course, he was doing it but I never really inquired abou tit. So it's definitely been in my hands since high school but never a top priority. Again another instance of parental modeling being more important than what they or teachers or whoever else say. Definitely not blaming them. Just trying to analyze my past. Once I can understand that past, I can make better decisions that'll get me to who I want to become more expediently. So now, I really have to lean into growing and attracting the people and energy I want to be around. Let's take advantage of social media. My coworkers' networks. Once I take those first few steps, overcoming that activation energy, it'll more quickly become a part of my identity.

Well last page of this journal. Let's start a new chapter in the next one!!