The Energy Dichotomy
From quiet to chaos (and back again)
I’m going all philosophical for a second.
This past weekend, I had an experience that reminded me just how analogous fitness and business are.
At 8am, I was on a quiet walk with my dog.
Still. Calm. Just a neighborhood slowly waking up.
By 9am, I was sitting in my daughter’s gymnastics class - three classes running at once. (I counted - 19 children under the age of six).
Loud. Busy. Chaotic.
And, as I sat there watching the flying limbs, hearing the loud squeals, I realized:
I could handle the chaos because I gave myself the quiet first.
Without that hour to reset, I would’ve walked in already depleted.
It’s like interval training.
You can push really hard for 60 or 90 seconds…
because you know recovery is coming.
Without recovery, intensity loses its…well…intensity.
And since this is The Fitness of Business, I started thinking:
How does this concept show up in business?
Because most entrepreneurs I talk to are trying to operate at high intensity all the time…
without building in the intentional recovery that actually makes that possible.
