Energy
Have you noticed there are times when we have very high energy and times of low energy?
What is causing these highs and lows?
If you notice which activities:
- kindle our curiosity,
- provide a direct or indirect result,
- provide connection,
- provide an edge, or
- are just plain fun and enjoyable,
We are involved and do those activities with high energy. All others are dealt with low energy.
My uncle Dr. G. Alagar Ramanujam, former professor of Physics, college principal, and Metaphysics researcher, visits the USA every year and conducts seminars on Vethathirian principles, illuminating all. His recent work is on what happened before the Big Bang, and whether the Big Bang really even happened? Additionally, he started an Ashram in Tanjore, India. Furthermore, he consistently publishes a magazine every month. He dedicates a good portion of his life to helping the people in and around that area.
I am lucky enough to have spent a good time with him every year for the last few years. He is in his 80’s and is doing all this work and has a huge plan to do more. But, where is he drawing this huge amount of energy from?
Driving a technology team in my organization over the years, I have introduced processes such as Scrum, TDD, new technology projects, and currently working on implementing the Domain-driven design. I always have been involved in these endeavors.
When I am writing this book, I am bursting with a high energy rush. Similarly, when I do weekly evening classes for the kids on technology through the “Headstream – Dream Big Buddy coding club”, I also am filled with tons of energy.
But why is the energy very high while doing these activities?
I am sure everybody has their own areas where energy is very high and areas where it is low.
The first law of thermodynamics, also known as the Law of Conservation of energy, states that :
Energy is neither created nor destroyed,
Energy can only be transformed from one form to another.
This brings us to the biggest revelation to all that, energy is there, we have to just learn to tap it and use it to our advantage.
If you notice there is a common thread flowing in all the above examples, which is nothing but the Purpose – WHY we are doing these activities, which kindle the energy system. I am sure there are several things you can correlate similarly to the situations above in your life.
Identify the Purpose – WHYs in your life and work on those to succeed.
Asking yourself and considering the WHYs in your life will bring about a new tool: curiosity. You can employ curiosity to explore different things and narrow to a purpose for which your efforts are worth investing. Curiosity will kindle your energy system.