Big Work Energy

My highlight of the week was going to pilates and getting it handed to me by all the regular pilates girlies. It was nearly as challenging as talking to my dad about therapy.

Bezos says forget work-life balance, look at work-life integration. Naval says work like a lion, not like a cow. Work in sprints. Then rest, reflect, improve, iterate. Work on things that don't feel like work to you so that work feels like play. 

I'm coming off a 3-hour work session that just went by in a breeze. Research, writing scripts for my social media clients, creating strategy reports. AI-enabled workflows humming. But it didn't feel like work. I was locked in. 

Walking home from my favorite coffee shop, I couldn't help think how those 3 hours disappeared. I'm so happy I'm here. 

Back in 2017, first job out of undergrad - instantly hated it. Didn't want to spend one more day there. When I left, I promised myself I wouldn't work jobs that weren't aligned with my interests. 

This past week I started at a SaaS company. Incredibly daunting. Surrounded by superstar sellers who'll up my game. Big learning curve. I'm nervous. I'm excited. I feel this is the kind of job for me.

Talking to a fellow salesperson - we agreed why we love sales despite the stress: you're measured on outputs, not inputs. No one gives a fuck how you spend your time thereafter. The power of owning your calendar has always been seductive to me. 

That's what Bezos and Naval mean. That's how I've designed my career over the past 8 years. 

Financial consequences are downstream. When you're here - really here - in work that energizes you, everything else follows. 

Anyway, it's a sunny Sunday afternoon in London. I think I'll have one more coffee now.