The Emotional Energy Factor by Mira Kirshenbaum

Author:Mira Kirshenbaum [Kirshenbaum, Mira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-48425-3
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2008-12-30T00:00:00+00:00

People talk about finding your life’s passion, and that’s great, but from the point of view of emotional energy maybe it’s just a little too grandiose for most of us. Anything that’s hard to find, hard to balance with the rest of your life, can be more intimidating and draining than energizing.

So I talk about keeping your flywheel spinning. All that means is that there’s something you’re interested in, that you care about, that gives you emotional energy. That’s your flywheel, and everyone can benefit from having one. I got the term from a mechanical device—often it’s a big, heavy spinning disk like in your car’s transmission—that stores energy and then gives it back to you when you need it. When I was a kid my favorite thing in the playground was the little merry-go-round the kids would push until it was going as fast as it could, and then we’d all jump on. That merry-go-round was a flywheel. Because it was so heavy and big, it took a while to get going, but once it got going, it would keep on going. We’d laugh and laugh. It was so much fun.

We all need a flywheel. If you’re a high-energy person, you definitely have one: something you’re passionately interested in. It’s always present in your life. Whatever else is happening, when you connect with your interest, and do something about it, it gives you energy. It doesn’t matter what it is. It might be something that seems stupid to others. But if you’re getting energy from it, what’s stupid about that? It’s having the love that counts, not what the love is for.

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