energy and momentum
- Posted: 1 year ago
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I have been thinking a lot about energy lately. In my quest to stay on top of the constant barrage of work, I have exhausted, and employ, all normal resources for maintaining a good energy and efficiency level, including all sorts of drinks, kombucha, tea, sleep, exercise, etc. As I dig deeper into my routine, I am finding that while caffeine and sleep are vital, it's really just the tip of the iceberg.
By routine, I guess this is the most robotic I have ever been. Wakeup, Coffee, Code, Coffee, Code, Lunch, Code, Dinne, Code, Sleep. Wash, Rinse, Repeat. For the past couple years that has been just about it, except I do get out in the evenings and afternoons, and the occasional vacation or camping trip, but definitely not an enormous amount.
Don't get me wrong, I love my job, its awesome - but it is hard to be "on" everyday. Somedays are very long, and as much as you want to try and really tackle the 38 tasks in front of you, something keeps you from doing it. It might be an email, or a phone call, or nothing at all. Just knowing that in one day you can't make a dent, it keeps you from moving very quickly at all.
Other days are a little bit better, but even more tiring when they are done. You have got your task list down to about 20 things, so you give it all you got, hoping to at least cut it in half. However, somehow, you hit a huge patch of mud. You are stuck in it all day. A bug that should take 15 minutes to fix turns into a 4 hour issue and ends up being 1 line that you stared at for 2 of those hours. Client decides that they want a magic lever, attached to a ceiling, with custom elevator shoes to reach it. At the end of the day you have worked very hard, but only finished 3 things.
Then there are days where you somehow find it. It, being the drive inside, energy even, to keep you going all day long, just knocking off things from your list. Today was one of those days for me. It is definitely an ebb and flow, but what is more interesting than having a flow day, is that it seems like everything just flies by, effortlessly. A 15 minute bugfix, takes 15 minutes. Clients requests are sane. All the sudden, I am right where I need to be. It is such a huge contrast from the other scenarios, but it certainly seems like it really is all about momentum at times. Possibly because I just spent the weekend seeing a close friend get married. There was definitely a lot of good energy there.
Cheers to energy and momentum. Have a nice week.
