Peter Sorgenfrei reflects on how his energy sources shifted from intense work and fundraising to nature and time with his child. He suggests auditing your activities to see which ones drain you and which ones refill you, then balancing accordingly.
For years, I got my energy from working, working with the team, partners, raising money from investors, whatever I needed to do. That's where I charged my batteries. That was what kept me going until I started taking more time off. And I realized that being in the woodshed or being in nature or being somewhere else with my kid, that's what really gave me energy. So nowadays I really try to balance the two. And everybody talks about work-life balance or life-work balance or life-work integration. There's all sorts of words for it. But I think that a good way to think about it is where do you get energy and where do you consume energy? And then do those things in a measured manner so that you have energy for all the things that you want to do in your life.
