Protect Your Energy Like It’s Part of the Plan.
You can’t build anything meaningful on fumes, and yet most of us treat energy like a spare battery we’ll swap later. That’s why good ideas stall, projects drag, and the work that matters most gets pushed to the edge of the week.
The human brain wasn’t built for constant input. Every decision, every ping, every tiny “just check” moment uses glucose (literal fuel!). The more we scatter it, the less we have left for deep focus and creativity. So if you feel foggy or stuck, that’s not laziness. It’s depleting.
Think of your energy like a budget. Every choice is a ‘spend’ or a ‘save’. When you keep tapping the card on small, reactive tasks, you’ll have nothing left for the one thing that was supposed to create actual progress. Focus attention on the deeper work first - the thinking, creating, connecting - and let the admin fit around it, not the other way round (P.S. Emails and Slack? Still admin).
Protecting your energy isn’t about disappearing. It’s about finding a pace you can actually keep. That might look like a weekly plan you can follow even on busier weeks, light structure that meets you where you are, and permission to do less… but do it better. It starts with being clear on your mission and protecting the time and energy that keep it moving.
The structure is scaffolding. It doesn’t replace the craft, it keeps it standing while you build. When the wind picks up - stress, deadlines, life - scaffolding is what stops the whole thing from collapsing. That’s why the right kind of structure feels like freedom, not control.
Most people say they want to be consistent without the pressure, and that’s really what it comes down to: finding a way to keep going without burning out in the process.
Start small. A morning check-in with yourself instead of a scroll. An hour blocked off in the week to decide what actually matters. A simple tracker so you don’t lose your place. A 15 minute Friday review to notice what gave you energy and what quietly drained it this week. Then tweak one thing and try again next week.
On the days that you feel overworked, make it easy on yourself, choose connection, choose visibility, pick one way to connect with a person who matters, pick one way to show your work where it matters, if there’s energy left do one light admin thing, then leave it there. Doing more won’t make it mean more. It’ll just make you tired, and people can feel that.
That’s why I created Consistent Impact, so you stop restarting every few weeks and start building momentum that grows, your message gets clearer, your time goes where it counts, and your vision actually reaches the people it was meant for. And if you take anything from this blog, take this, energy isn’t something you earn by finishing the work, it’s what makes the work possible. Protect it, plan for it, and everything else starts to work better.
