Welcome back to another week of work.

How’s your energy today?

If you’re anything like my clients and me, your energy has been all over the place. One day, you’re feeling energized and productive, and the next, you arrive at work dead on arrival.

The most challenging part is that it feels impossible to predict when you’ll be raring to go and when you’ll feel like playing hooky to binge-watch Heated Rivalry for the third time.

So how do you run a business when your energy feels totally unpredictable?

Nature has the answer.

This week, I’m taking you outside to learn from the source.

Ready? Let’s go!

If you’ve been riding an energy rollercoaster lately — totally lit up and creative one day, exhausted and checked out the next — this episode is for you.​

This week, we’re looking to the chaotic threshold between winter and spring as a reminder that variability isn’t a flaw, it’s just how living things operate.

Here’s what nature is teaching us this week:

• Why the belief that your energy should be predictable is BS
• What seasonal thresholds teach us about creative cycles in business
• How to honor your fluctuating energy without making it a problem

RITUAL

Step 1. Check in with yourself

Before opening your laptop or looking at your to-do list, pause and ask yourself: where is my energy today? Don’t try to change it. Just name it. Expansive? Contracted? Somewhere in between?

Step 2. Look outside

Find a window or step outside for a moment. Notice what nature is doing today. Is it sunny, windy, cloudy, raining? Notice if there are parallels between what’s happening outside and what’s happening inside of you.

Step 3. Name your inner season

Ask yourself: “Am I feeling Spring energy or Winter energy today?” Write it down in one sentence. Something like: “Today I am in Winter mode — slow, quiet, and turning inward.”

Step 4. Adjust your expectations

Based on your season, name one thing you will do today and one thing you will let go of. Honor what’s real rather than what you think should be true.

REFLECTION

• When your energy dips this week, what’s your first instinct — to push through, or to honor your need for rest?
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• When it comes to your business, in what ways are you expecting consistent output, steady motivation, and predictable creativity? Are those expectations working for you?
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• When you’re in a high-energy, expansive Spring day, how do you care for yourself so you don’t burn through your reserves before the next contraction comes?