| I've been thinking about energy lately. As you might remember, a couple weeks ago I spent a few days in LA shooting content for the blog and social media. Not my favorite thing in the world by any means, but it has to be done and it's important for the company. I wrote about this in last week's Sunday with Sisson—how certain tasks take a lot out of you. So how did I manage to do all that stuff I wouldn't have chosen to do on my own? I think energy can be created out of what feels like thin air. I don't mean combustible energy you burn in your car or fuel you use to power your house, but internal, biological energy. Think about it: You can be dragging your ass all day, feeling sad, miserable, and unwilling to do anything. Dishes pile up in the sink. Work goes unfinished. Tasks linger. But then someone calls you with an offer to go out to a great restaurant or concert and suddenly you spring up from the couch, take a shower, and get ready to go out. You suddenly have energy that you didn't have before. What's going on? Nothing materially changed. You didn't eat anything that "gave you" energy. You didn't start manufacturing extra ATP in your cells (or did you?). You're still in the same situation you were five seconds ago, but now you have all this "energy." Possibly what's going on is that most of us have reserves we can't easily access, or that the body saves for when we need it. For instance, the same "energy burst" can happen if something stressful happens. Think of the mom lifting the car to save her child. Think of how alert and energized you are when you hear the strange knock in the middle of the night. But I also think that we can create—or appear to create, which is the same thing—energy out of thin air. We can will ourselves to act, to get moving. The trick, of course, is how do we will ourselves to do that? How do we make it happen without relying on the situation to change and force us into action? I've always been able to do this. Not sure exactly how. But there is one prerequisite: I don't complain about "being tired." I just move. Can you do this? Can you create energy? | 
