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Hello, tired humans,
Ever finish a perfectly reasonable workday completely wiped out?
Your workload may not be the problem.
This week, Erin King helps us identify what’s actually stealing our energy, with a free Energy Exam to see where your energy stands. Becca Marshall tackles the other culprit: spending our days reacting instead of choosing.
Because before you fix your energy, you need to know where it’s going.
– Ric & Shellie
P.S. Take the Energy Exam, then send Your unique referral link to someone you know who’s always running on fumes. 🙌🏼
SOMATIC SOVEREIGNTY
The Energy Audit: What’s Actually Draining You (It’s Not Your Workload)
by Erin King
I finished a Tuesday with three meetings and a half-written proposal. Light, by any reasonable measure. But by 4pm, I felt like I had presented to a stadium, run a half-marathon, AND lost an argument with my WiFi router. All at once. Ever have one of those days where you look at your calendar and think, Wait…why am I THIS tired?!
I spent 18-months working alongside PhD researchers studying more than 10,000 people to better understand exactly that. And one of the biggest things I learned was this: the amount of work you do and the amount of energy your day costs you are NOT always the same thing. Especially when you work remotely.
SOMATIC SOVEREIGNTY
🌿 Resourced: Lifestyle Medicine for Remote Professionals
By Becca Marshall
Resourced Living is a monthly column for remote workers, weaving practices and tools as lifestyle medicine– so you can stay balanced, clear, and supported in everyday life.
Answered, Not Chosen
Some of our biggest energy drains aren't on the calendar. They're the moments we leave ourselves and don't notice we've gone.
The message arrives. We answer. The meeting ends, another begins, and somewhere in between, we leave ourselves behind.
That's autopilot: a day that happens to us instead of with us. We respond because something appeared. Say yes before checking our capacity. Open another tab without knowing why.
LAST WEEK’S POLL RESULTS
What's quietly draining your energy the most right now?
[Endless micro-decisions] “Arguing with AI (Claude) and evaluating whether the outputs I’m getting are accurate enough to put my name on them.” Jori
QUICK TAKES
Keeping Your Saw Sharp
🪫 3 Daily Habits That Could Be Draining Your Energy. Unhealthy habits can spiral into disconnection, distraction, or fatigue.
🪫 The Hidden Human Costs of Workplace Digital Fatigue. Schedule real breaks: short walks, screen-free pauses, deliberate reflection.
🪫 Decision Fatigue at Work: Why Your Brain Slows Down After 50 Micro-Decisions (and How to Protect Focus)
MEME OF THE WEEK
The Field Report
What's real this week, the gap between freedom and follow-through, closing.
Sales Uncharted Podcast
We had a great conversation with Dr. Deepak Bootra, Podcast: What It Actually Takes to Thrive Remotely. Much of the discussion focused on the three core challenges we see for professionals.
Somatic & Emotional Isolation: Navigating physical loneliness, a lack of professional belonging, and the erosion of boundary lines between life and labor.
Self-Management Friction: Structuring a highly focused, motivated workday and maintaining psychological momentum without external manager authority.
The Invisible Professional Trap: Fighting reduced career visibility, stagnant networks, and the high-discipline strain of self-marketing in an asynchronous world.
THE VIBE
News to Use
🔆 Why solopreneur AI projects fail (and how to get better results). Three common problems and how I’ve solved them.
🔆 How to Change Company Culture When Half Your Team is Remote. The companies that get this right are the ones that are focusing on building a culture that can be felt from anywhere, as opposed to one tied to a physical office.
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Recharge Isn't Optional 🔋
Turns out the best energy audit isn't a checklist, it's a room full of Allies who get it.
From silent reading to happy hours, your local Outposts are basically IRL leak-plugging stations.
Skip one more night alone with your inbox.
POLL – NEXT WEEKS TOPIC
Next week: AI as Force Multiplier vs. Threat to Your Value- Turning AI into a true force multiplier to boost output and value; not just speed.
Where's AI actually landing in your practice right now?
This Week’s Partner
Learn How to Stay Visible in the AI Era
AI is changing how customers discover businesses. If your SEO strategy is built for yesterday's search, your visibility is already slipping. Learn how to optimize your content for today’s AI search results with BELAY’s latest report..
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