Stage 05 · Follow your curiosity · Lesson 2 of 2 What you never get bored of
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  5. Express

Stage 05 · Follow your curiosity Lesson 2 of 2

What you never get bored of

Tell apart the work that drains you from the work you return to even after a break.

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Lesson two. What you never get bored of. Tell apart the work that drains you from the work you return to even after a break. Some work drains you, however good you are at it. Some fills you, even when it's hard. And some you come back to after a break, seeing it wider than before. An energy audit sorts your week by how each task leaves you: filled, or drained. It isn't about quitting things. It's about noticing where your energy lives. Why it matters. What fills you is where your hard-earned skill meets your joy. Expression that comes from there has life in it. For example. Client calls fill you; invoicing drains you. Your voice probably lives in those calls. Or: Writing proposals drains you, but explaining the idea out loud lights you up. Try video. Where this leads. It shows which of your skills belong in what you'll share. Hold on to this. Needing rest from something you love is normal. When you come back, you often see it wider.

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Hold on to this

Needing rest from something you love is normal. When you come back, you often see it wider.

The lesson

Some work drains you, however good you are at it. Some fills you, even when it's hard. And some you come back to after a break, seeing it wider than before.

An energy audit sorts your week by how each task leaves you: filled, or drained. It isn't about quitting things. It's about noticing where your energy lives.

Why it matters

What fills you is where your hard-earned skill meets your joy. Expression that comes from there has life in it.

Where this leads

  1. See
  2. Heal
  3. Gather
  4. Trust
  5. Express

It shows which of your skills belong in what you'll share.

For example

  • Client calls fill you; invoicing drains you. Your voice probably lives in those calls.

  • Writing proposals drains you, but explaining the idea out loud lights you up. Try video.

A line from RumiClose
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
Rumi, tr. Coleman Barks

In plain words

Notice what quietly pulls at you, again and again. Follow it. It knows the way to your real work.

For this lesson

The tasks that fill you are that pull, showing up in your ordinary week.

Your practice · about 5 min

List your weekly tasks. Say each one out loud, and mark it Fills me or Drains me.

Why it mattersYour body answers honestly, before your sense of duty does.

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Your weekly tasks.

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Say each one, and notice. Does it fill you, or drain you?

Beside each one on your list, write

  • Fills me
  • Drains me

ThenWhat fills you is a clue to what's yours.

Need a nudge? Turn over a hint.