Espresso Shot 15: DO WHAT ENERGIZES YOU!

DO WHAT ENERGIZES YOU! Are you energized? How do you gain energy in your life choices? Ponder this topic of ENERGY and ENERGIZING choices in your LIFE BY DESIGN. Nicoa talks about the impact of her own focus, mindfulness and energy drains and gains inside a LIFE BY DESIGN! Time to reflect on the work you do and whether it energizes you or not.  Are you excited? Do you need to make a change? Time to reflect!  JOURNALING PROMPT Y'ALL

Don't forget to look for LIZZ RANTZE S2 EP17 interview coming up on MAY 1, 2024! 

PS: TAKE THE DAY OFF! (or at least the next 15 minutes)

Transcript

Nicoa Coach: 0:02

sometimes don't you just need a quick moment of inspiration? Or maybe you just need a moment of caffeinated contemplation to reflect on life. That's the idea behind my weekly coffee with Nicola espresso shots. I'll be sharing short jolts of inspiration in each clip. In addition to my longer Coffee with Nicoa interview episodes, make sure to subscribe so you never miss an espresso shot, or a full length Coffee with Nicoa interview created just for you. Hey, guys, it's your weekly espresso shot. This is Nicoa I just want to tell you, go do what energizes you? And if there are things in your life right now that do not energize you. Try not to do them. It's that simple. But the color what about my job? Well, look, man, if your job isn't energizing you, then you got to find something either in the job that energizes you, or a whole bunch of stuff outside of that job to energize you to offset any drain that you're gaining or getting as a result of the work that you've chosen to do. I didn't choose this, I don't really want to do ABC. Okay, then go choose something else. Because I'll give you an example. So today, I have just come off the for those of you who've been following me for a while I've just come off the four days of packing my mother to move her home to Wilmington, she's going to be moving into independent living. And I had a window of time to go to her home, help her pack everything for her apartment, clean, organized, get ready for the movers pack her up for a temporary stay with us. And then get her in the car and bring her down here eight hour drive and take care of her as her as her daughter as her caregiver as her support as her friend. And that took a lot out of me. And today I am back in my office. This just happened this past five days. And today I had to go back to work. I mean, you could there wasn't really a break. You know, I didn't actually schedule a break I in retrospect, I should have done that. But I did not. And I found myself quite drained and not energized and sitting in the bed before the event before the interview saying to myself, Oh my God, should I have canceled this. I'm like, I'm so tired. I'm so worn out. I'm kind of numb, like, literally felt like I was in a surreal movie over the last five days making this all happen, which those of you who've been there done that somebody texted me they said it's brutal. Like yeah, it was brutal and beautiful. But it was all I focused on, I was so completely focused in the moment, moment to moment to moment to moment. And I could not fill my cup up fast enough to truly reenergize daily, because there was just so much that had to be done. And that's just part of life. That's just part of the ebb and flow of commitments and things that matter most to us. So it made sense. I am not judging the experience as a negative one. I'm just saying it was draining. It drained me. And I had to recover. And I was concerned that I wasn't going to recover quick enough, in order to really show up for myself and show up for my guest today in my podcast interview. So about an hour, I did not reschedule it, I did not cancel it. And I sat long enough to meditate and rest in order to prepare. I got here about an hour before the interview and I did my research. I had bios and profiles. And I started searching on the internet to find out everything and anything I could find about my guest. And her name is Luz Rance, and it was awesome. And you got to make sure and check out that episode. It's probably at some sometime in the spring of 2024. So go look for that. But when I started the interview, and even before that, as I began to uncover parts of her life by design, parts of her beautiful story, I felt my energy shift. I got excited. I also got a coffee. So it could have been the caffeine a little bit. I'm just saying caffeine does help fuel my life. But as I really got ready, by the time she got on the interview, man, I had a blast. I was so happy. So excited. I loved everything about our conversation. I was my true authentic self. And as we wrapped up when we finished the interview, we had a few minutes to ourselves to talk and put a bow on it for just us after the recording. It stopped and I said you know what? I know I'm supposed to be doing this. I am not I am so energized right now just the contrast between how I felt before this episode was being done. And now afterwards and I'm I'm doing this right now because of the energy I'm feeling. I'm doing this espresso shot just to share with you. I'm just I'm just so happy that I've given myself permission to do work that I love. And honestly I need to earmark this, this episode this espresso shot. So whenever I'm down whenever I am not feeling my fullest and I'm thinking why am I doing this? Oh my god. I'm gonna remind myself because it makes me happy. and it makes the people I interact with happy. And we're all happier as a result of these interactions, we all are more fulfilled. And I'm raising the vibration of the planet. And everybody who listens to this takes that energy. And they ripple effects that energy to everybody else that's out there around them. If you don't think this is making a difference in the world, ah, I know it is. And I know that when you find energy in what you're doing, that makes a difference to I don't care if you're the best dishwasher at the local restaurant. I don't care if you're the CEO of the largest organization in the world. When you're in it, and you're in flow and you enjoy what you're doing. And you make it mean something positive and purpose filled. You can't go back, you just can't go back. So if you're not having this feeling this, this, this excitement, then go find it. Go find your energized mission in life. It is so worth it. And I'm going to write you a prescription right now to take the day off. I'm sending it to you through the ether. And I want you to really sit down and think about what energizes you take an entire day or at least 15 minutes, maybe even an hour go run out of a conference room go to a we work and sit there alone and say what do I love? What energizes me and do that? Life by design? I love mine. And you can love yours too. Thanks for listening. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an espresso shot or a full length Coffee with Nicoa interview created just for you.

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