If you are lucky enough, you would have probably realised already, in essence, time is all you have, and all that you have to lose, if any.
Typically, when you start to engage any activities (just by the way, in my world, it will be defined as in projects), it's likely that you would be thinking about how much time and resource you're going to put into this gig, and whether or not you can afford it. Simple inference tells us, all that resources usually you obtained by exchanging time that was running on your watch, be it hourly or contractual repayment. In professional world, we have one fancy thing normally named as project plan, which usually consists of a bunch of milestones and period of congregated effort estimates. Alright, there we also have people's name beside the coloured bars/items, depends on which religion of project management school you're from. My point is, it doesn't matter as long as we view it as we have been doing for God knows how long. Timing is just about everything we care about, everything we check against, everything we breathe with, everything we rely on our lives to tick with, to certain extent. I feel psychologically, it came from the needs for us to be in control our daily shit, a false sense of knowing where we are and where we heading. It's funny how time and space is really no difference, Kudos to Einstein.
Now, what I really want to talk about, is energy.
Only a handful smart ones know that time is irrelevant if you want to live your life in a non-mediocre way (accidentally, while I was pondering the content of this blog, friend recommend 4-hour week). Let's get this straight first - I do not believe you'll be able to be the geek you want to be when you are clueless at timing. On the contrary, I think we should be master of it. The difference is, where the real focus lies. For me, being able to manage energy and understand how it develops and evolves at different stage of your life is critical. With that, have a easy grip on the timeline is going to be natural. Working by hours will always be limited by Laws of physics, in terms of how much you are likely to gain. Your income will depend on your continuous efforts in time, instead of quality of decision or unique skills required.
So if time is an easy reference we can always look up to, energy is not. The best reference we have is probably those society elites. Nonetheless, a certain period of full concentrated energy can deliver results which would be difficult, sometimes impossible to achieve in a usual time-is-the-God manner. Why? Simple. When you have a target, and you are fully charged for it, it's much more likely you'll get it; otherwise, your ambition, passion or whatever you like to call it, will more likely to be worn out in the mist of motionlessness, with nothing come out the other end, sometime, even if there is something out, it won't be meaningful anymore.
Now, most people could not keep a constant charged state to be ready to engage whatever is coming their ways, some could but very few. Thus we have to be humble enough to learn how to tune our energy state and know when we should be ready to strike. Fluctuation is in the nature of energy. The other one is defined by law of conservation of energy - energy can neither be created nor destroyed: it can only be transformed from one state to another. It really doesn't matter how many days you spent on your couch reading books or playing games, skiing or diving in the middle of nowhere, do what you like. Just make sure when the mission is called, you know you'll be ready to go for it, like you never had before. That energy, is what I call something of note and can make delivery happen.
Look around you, if you think most people around you are busy in serving the system, you might be in the wrong crowd.
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