1) The quality of your life is determined by the quality and quantity of energy.
2) As you age and energy decreases, it is vital to increase your knowledge of how to use what you have.
3) Balancing your energy and focus in different aspects teaches you things you cannot learn directly.
Oh, there are countless comments that can be made here, but one of the best is “where attention goes, energy flows, and results show”, Tim Piering’s adaptation of a Hawaiian Huna philosophy.
That implies that we need both focus AND energy to create “results”.
So much to speak of here. If you lack energy, and it isn’t a specific medical issue, your problem is almost certainly in one of the following four areas:
1) Focus. You need to know exactly what you will do with the energy, how it will benefit you, and have more pleasure than pain associated with the path.
2) Diet. You must eat today for how you want to feel tomorrow--NOT how you want to feel in the next two hours.
3) Exercise. Every day you should bend, twist, sweat, and stretch. The modern world has severed the link between action and results our ancestors experienced as a natural consequence of life. As a result you now have to THINK about these things, and if you don’t, your body will suffer. It can take as little as an hour a WEEK to create a healthy, strong body--but you have to be very smart about how you do it.
4) Rest. If you are tired, and you get less than seven hours of sleep a night, in all likelihood you need look no further for an explanation. VERY few people can really thrive on less than seven hours of sleep a night. The rest are just stress-crazed and running to keep up. The quality and quantity of your rest is essential.
Now here is the “energy dancer” component: every day you should be seeking to learn one new thing about how your mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual “machine” operates. Seek elegance, efficiency, effectiveness in multiple arenas. Do this, and you will automatically fill in the “blind spots” that steal your energy.
Seek to CONSTANTLY increase the amount of energy, and your efficiency and effectiveness in use. In that way, as you age, although there is an inevitable drop in physical energy, you know more about motivating yourself emotionally, committing spiritually, and tactical/strategic usage. You stay ahead of the curve.
So much to say on this subject, but this is a decent surface, and will hopefully inspire you to look more carefully at your own relationship to this aspect of your life.