Inverting the Energy Paradigm

Managing your physical resources ultimately boils down to discarding the unrealistic expectation of always being “at your best.” Energy naturally fluctuates; attempting to maintain a perpetual peak is not just impossible but detrimental to your well-being. Respecting your natural rhythms can lead you to have a healthier relationship to work as well

The nature of our life energy, however, is to circulate in an unbroken cycle of forming and reforming; it’s life’s impulse to continuously move through the cycles of birth, growth, fruition, completion, and renewal. In counterpoint, the culture shuts this energy down through an egregious disregard for the wisdom of the body. Our institutions have f

“It’s as if giving up on saving the world,” writes eco-visionary Charles Eisenstein, “opens us up to doing the things that will save the world.”8

The transformation we need is not simply political: we have to be willing to transform ourselves, too. This isn’t just about ‘ethical consumerism’. It’s about how we work, and the signals we send when we take on leadership roles in our organizations. It’s about what we say to our friends, colleagues and families when climate change comes up – and w

And how will we deal with unfolding climate change? There is now a widespread consensus that we need to do something to prevent many highly undesirable consequences, but what kind of action, what sort of behavioral transformation would work best? For those who ignore the energetic and material imperatives of our world, those who prefer mantras of g