I’ve been thinking a lot about energy lately while composing a new Green Living article. As I have gone around the house testing
various appliances with my Kill A Watt monitor, checking how much power they
need to do their thing, I began to think about the amps drawn upon when I am cranking
out articles, reviews, and blog posts.
Many of my appliances, such as my refrigerator, are energy
stars (as in Energy Star appliances).
They didn’t achieve that status by burning through tons of power over
the course of their machine lives. These
are lean running machines. Just as world
class runners have honed their craft to achieve an economy of movement and an
optimal use of their body’s energy, so too writers work to find the kind of
flow that produces while drawing upon precious resources.
When I was a long distance runner, my breathing and running
rhythm didn’t kick in until I had covered three miles. At that point, the running began to feel
good… almost effortless. My heart,
lungs, and muscles found their synchronicity.
They pumped as one.
If I quit running before mile four, I missed out on the
naturally released endorphins that produce such an incredible feeling of
“rightness.” It’s the only way I can
think to describe it. It’s called the
runner’s high because of the sense of intense wellbeing that envelops one after
a good run.
There is a “writeness” that exists for authors, too. If we write our way into that place where our
mind, heart, and life energies merge, it is possible to experience the
writer’s high. Sometimes we get there
without expending a whole lot of energy.
It can feel effortless at times.
There are those days, though, when we may not hit our flow until mile
five, or seven, or ten. The thing is to
keep writing. There is always that
breakthrough mile where it begins to feel incredibly right.
Whether you are a new writer or a pro, I encourage you to
become an Energy Star. Writing every day
makes us lean, powerful writing machines.
Just as I became a better, stronger runner when I started training with
a partner, I encourage you to draw strength from the many talented Squidoo
writers. Have you joined our team? We’d love to write alongside you and cheer
you on toward your next writing milestone. See you at the starting line.
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