Phases
I’ve been walking this planet for a while now, and I’m amazed that not everybody sees that everyone goes through different energy states during the day. Everybody moves through creative energy, physical/sport energy, and even a bit of compulsive behavior energy during the day. The difference is the length and intensity.
This may seem trivial, but the hard part is hitting the right energy at the right moment during the day. You want to work out when you’re in your physical energy. You want to reorganize your bookshelf when you’re in an OCD phase. That is actually the difficult part.
When somebody has a lot of creative energy (or physical energy), we call this ADD or ADHD. But that’s not the real problem. If somebody has a lot of energy, the issue is that this person is forced to sit still for long periods of time. In that sense, many schools are constantly overstepping boundaries with kids who have a lot of physical and creative energy.
Everybody has a bit of “sit and listen” energy, but many of us don’t have much of it.
* Why this helps
When you know they are phases, you can actually prepare for them. I know every day that I need one hour of working out for my physical phase. I also need to do something creative during my creative energy phase. It’s less frightening.
Your day is out of balance.
Many people with ADD are real energy grazers. They do a little bit of a task here, a task there. They check in briefly to see how things are going. They never really finish anything.
It is a farmer.
Riddle: what is everything when you don’t look at it, and one thing when you do?
A mirror.
Sometimes nature holds up a mirror to us in a brilliant way. What did you expect—that a particle would always move from A to B in the same way? It’s your expectation that’s off, not the outcome.