So, how much energy do you have today? This is the day to serve as vlog gas with Anthony Engini. It's a Monday. And I am willing to bet that depending on how you manage to your weekend is the quality of your energy today.
I've been asked many times, New Year's resolutions, how to start the year, right? Well, I've said it's more than once that the best way to start next year is to end this one, right? So the best way to start Monday is to end the weekend, right? How much energy do you have today?
If you're to rate yourself from one to ten, one being the highest, no, lowest, and then being the highest, what rating, what level will you give your energy today? I recall running the Chicago Marathon a few years ago for the second time. Why? Because Marisa, my wife was finally running it, and I had done it before.
So I said I'd help her by pacing her. You know, this 42 kilometer race. And that I did, unfortunately, I didn't finish at the 22nd, I think, kilometer. I had to ask Marisa to go ahead.
I couldn't take it. I hit a wall in running terms. That's when your entire system breaks down. And I will admit that the main reason was because I hadn't trained myself enough for it.
Well, I had enough energy to finish half the race, but not the full race. So on one hand, my physical energy was depleted. But let me tell you this, emotionally, almost spiritually, I was still delighted. Why?
Because I had paced my wife and trained with my wife before the marathon, and she completed the Chicago Marathon on her own. See, it's not just the energy to finish that was important, but it was the energy to pace and to help my wife finish. I had no energy to finish, but I had the energy to celebrate. Was I being inconsistent?
I mean, this taught me just a couple of weeks ago studying energy. Was there another source of energy for the celebration activity? And the answer is yes. Let me give you another illustration.
There have been countless times when I said I were in argument before we were to share about how our marriage has lasted all this time. Seriously, I believe that this is partly spiritual warfare, that there is an enemy, that is darkness that wishes to kill the light. But there was something glorious in this experience as well, because I realized that you can be emotionally low, but you can be mentally sharp, spiritually alive. And for me and myself, this would happen when we had no emotion for each other.
Well, we had a negative one, but somehow we were still able to complete the marriage program, the motivational inspirational talk, because we were mentally alert and we were spiritually full. Think about that. Christopher Reeve, he said that some people are walking around with full use of their bodies, and they're more paralyzed than I am. You know, Christopher Reeve was the former Superman, right, who fell from a horse, unfortunately, and was paralyzed from the neck down.
So when you think about your energy, don't just think about that one score you gave yourself, because you are a total beating. And in a couple of days, we're going to be talking about this. For this week, the different kinds of energies and how to leverage them when one is depleted and one is still all the way full. So whatever your day to day, God bless you, again from Christopher Reeve, you play the hand, you're dealt.
I think the game's worthwhile.