#54: Power of Pulling Your Energy Back

The Power of Pulling Your Energy Back

Want to give you an authentic window into my life and a thought that I’m having. It’s not an abstract concept or a motivational idea. It’s something happening right now, and I believe it’s one of the most meaningful experiences a human being can have.

After decades of striving, creating, and achieving, something has shifted in me. I think it's a shift that most people never get to experience. It's realization that we spend far more than our time, attention, and money. We are constantly spending energy. And we do it without realizing where it goes.

The Distinction Most People Miss

Each day we send energy into the world. We pour into businesses we’re trying to grow, families we’re nurturing, lives we’re building. But we also scatter it in ways we rarely notice. We give it to...

- the parent-teacher meeting we attend out of guilt
- the certification class someone else said was important
- the happy hour we hope will help us fit in and stay visible
- the constant competing with others as school conditioned us

It goes deeper. We give it to expectations our parents placed on us. We give it to versions of success social media tells us we should want. We give it to neighbors, peers, and coworkers who say we need to do, buy, or become something to be worthy.

None of this is inherently wrong. In fact, much of it is beautiful. Truth is that much of the energy we spend is sent toward things never really ours, rather inherited from other people’s beliefs. They were shaped by institutions that taught us to compete instead of create, fueled by comparison instead of clarity.

When you pause long enough to notice, you begin to see your energy is scattered across dozens of places. And when your energy is scattered, the container that holds your human strength, dignity, and divinity is nearly empty, at least mine was.

The Power of Calling It All Back

That is the shift happening. After decades of pouring outward,

I am consciously calling all of my energy back.

I'm stepping away from real estate development projects overseas. I've exited nonprofit boards that once held my attention, pulled back from entrepreneurial ventures, released relationships, environments, and patterns that no longer align with who I am becoming. And I have done all of it with gratitude and respect for the seasons shared.

Each of us carries a finite energetic container. That container is the source of our creativity, our capacity, and our ability to build a meaningful life. While it is a privilege to pour that energy outward into the world, there is immense strength in calling it back.

When you do, something extraordinary happens.

You begin to feel a stillness that is charged with possibility.

You begin to notice the raw material of creation itself collecting within you, waiting to be shaped. Pulling your energy back becomes a preparation for what is next, not hiding from what is (this where I think people falter thinking lack of activity is failure. It's not. It's conscious living now and preparation for later).

Energy Containment Is a Quiet Freedom

I'm realizing it's foundation beneath so many things. Looking back, what made my journey unique is my 23-year old self made conscious decisions to direct energy toward five freedoms. He may not have used those words, but he deliberately sent energy toward time, financial, geographic, purpose, and relationship freedom activities, and that choice shaped life he lives now.

Think about this. Without awareness of where your energy goes:

- time freedom quickly fills with other people’s priorities
- financial freedom becomes a chase for more instead of enough
- purpose freedom turns into burnout
- relationship freedom can become codependency

Pulling energy back, you begin to see how deeply the world tries to keep you constantly present, constantly producing, constantly performing. You don't have to live that way.

Awareness of your energy — and the decision to contain it — is a refusal to leak life force into everything. That is exactly what is happening to me now, learning what it feels like to gather what I once scattered and to hold it, to refill my 'container' for what's next.

What Happens When You Do

With my energy back, I feel different in ways I did not expect.

I feel focused, but not because I am doing more. I feel centered because I am concentrated. I feel deeply human and profoundly divine at the same time. And for the first time in a long time, I am in no rush to create. I know that when I do choose to build again, it will come from alignment and purpose. It will be for my family, for the people I love, for the new people entering my life, for the communities I care about, and for the future I am shaping.

It will be born from strength, not depletion.

Your Invitation

I share this because I believe most people have never felt what it means to be fully contained. But you do not need decades of work or a list of accomplishments to start. All you need is awareness and a willingness to reclaim what is already yours.

This week, I invite you to pause and ask yourself: 

- Where is my energy leaking right now?
- What would it feel like to pull even a small part of it back?
- What might be possible if I stopped letting old siphon new?

Try this: for 7 days, say no to anything that does not align with the future version of you. Do not justify it. Do not explain it. Just protect your container. Refill it if you have to like me.

Then sit still and watch what begins to return. Notice what starts to take shape. Because when you stop scattering your energy everywhere else, you finally have the ability to build the life you were meant to live.

Much longer read than normal, but I hope it helps you.

Greetings from by the sea where I'm happiest and fully contained.

Maurice