Well, hello there. My name is Morgan Harper-Nichols. I'm an artist and a writer, and this is a space where I share words that I hope can make a little room for you to slow down and take a few deep breaths as you prepare for whatever lies ahead. Thanks for being here today. And now on to today's episode.

Today's episode is for the one who feels like you don't have the same amount of energy that you used to have or the amount of energy that you would like to have. If you've ever found yourself looking back on previous seasons of your life and you've

wondered, wow, where did I get all of that energy from?

How on earth did I get all of it done?

Or it's something that you're questioning in the present moment, how am I going to get through

this? Where am I going to get the energy to get everything done? If you've been asking yourself those

kinds of questions, this one's for you. Maybe back then when you had all of that energy, you were

juggling several jobs or driving a long commute each day. Maybe you were trying to spend time

with family while also going to school. In the present moment, you might look back on that time and think to yourself,

wow, imagine what I could do if I only had the energy that I used to. While you may not have the

same amount of energy, and maybe your inner resources look different than they used to, there are still areas of your life

where you can still show up with enthusiasm. When we have enthusiasm for the routines in our daily

lives, we are reminded that joy is still possible even in impossibly uncertain times, even when we don't feel like we'll have the energy that we need to carry on.

And when it comes to having enthusiasm in daily life, one of the things that you can do is look at the different places in your life where you have enthusiasm, where you do still get excited.

Whether you are enthusiastic about giving gifts or learning something new, whether you enjoy traveling to a new place or prefer the comfort of

the familiar, it is possible to find enthusiasm right here and right now. And it's through that

enthusiasm that you can find more energy. It might not always resort in energy to just get up and move around

and accomplish a to-do list of a thousand things, but it's energy that remind you that you are still

alive and there are still things within daily life that you are free to come alive to.

No matter the amount of energy you feel that you are lacking, it matters to remind yourself

that you still have time to do the things that make you feel alive.

Even if it looks like taking a walk around a park that you've never been to

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