The Four Cornerstones of Personal Energy

Between Thanksgiving and February in Hollywood, things slow to a crawl, then slowly ratchet up again. It can be nerve-wracking. But…I can feel the momentum now: more meetings, more offers, and more negotiations with our agents. I’m starting to feel the shape of the year to come, and it seems that the momentum we’ve built over the last two years is having that nice, slow acceleration.

What I have to do is get ready for the Game. That means my body, emotions, and mind have to be in the proper alignment, and functioning as efficiently and effectively as possible (the Three Gates’ “useful”).

Body. I have to have the maximum amount of energy. This impacts how much work I can do in a day, as well as overall mood, health, and capacity to deal with stress positively. And make no mistake: in adult life, you are paid for how much stress you can take without breaking.

Without, in essence, that stress becoming “strain.” “What does not kill you makes you stronger” IF and ONLY if that stress is below your maximum capacity to grow in response. You can see the truth of this with exercise.

Too LITTLE exercise and your body falls apart. We were made to work, which is why zero-gravity is such a damaging influence on the bones and muscles. IMO, the greatest single reason for the “obesity epidemic” is that there is no longer an immediate penalty for not moving around. For the first time in human history, the average person can earn a day’s worth of calories for about an hour of…