Energy is fuel.

It is the asset that affects everything else. It is your mental, emotional, and physical capacity for how you show up. Most people do not struggle with having enough energy. They struggle with where they spend it.

Shane Parrish said it best.
“All the energy you put into things you cannot control comes at the expense of the things you can control.”

Think about that for a moment. Every minute you spend worrying about opinions, replaying old mistakes, or stressing about circumstances you cannot influence, you drain the energy you need for the things that actually move your life forward. If you remember nothing else from today, remember this:

Stop pouring energy into what drains you.

This will not always feel easy, but it is essential. You must give up measuring your progress by things that were never yours to control. Start measuring it by what you do with what you do control.

Your habits. Your attitude. Your preparation. Your response to adversity. Your willingness to take action. Your boundaries.

The people who rise are the people who keep their energy focused on the levers they can actually pull. Make it a point today to refuse to waste any energy on something outside your control.

Complaining about a colleague? Not today.
Blaming an official? Not today.
Making excuses for someone else’s mistake? Not today.

Now is your chance to direct your energy to the right places, not the empty ones.
Pull the levers that are yours and let everything else go.

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