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A founder realized work used to be their main energy source, but time in nature and with their kid actually recharge them. The trick is knowing where you gain and lose energy, then managing both deliberately.
A founder realized work used to be their main energy source, but time in nature and with their kid actually recharge them. The trick is knowing where you gain and lose energy, then managing both deliberately.
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.
