Recently I gave up coffee.
I know; sad face.
The reason isn’t about coffee so much as the chapter I’m in right now. I’m a naturally excitable person and when you add a strong americano to that at about 10am- well, you get a LOT of positive energy from me.
Being caffeinated creates a certain type of energy in me. It’s great for big ideas, getting the pen going and filling an empty white board. Caffeinated energy plugs me into the visionary mindset; anything is possible, everything it fun and we can do it all.
That’s a great space to be- sometimes.
What I noticed was the chapter I’m in now actually calls for something else.
At the moment my days are solitary. I don’t need to project energy to a room full of 400 kids, or even teach to camera. At the moment my tasks are a cycle of writing, editing, walking or building pages for the website.
These tasks require attention to detail- something that the soaring visionary energy struggles with.
On coffee, I found myself easily caught up with ideas or tasks as they came up while I was trying to get on my quiet calm work.
So I removed it, in favour of an energy source that is more fitted to my rhythm and outputs right now.
So I’m challenging my own belief that all energy is created equal. Just as tasks vary greatly, so too should the energy source we bring to them.
