Clarity On Fire

I vividly remember opening the front door of my old office building and feeling a wave of dread and exhaustion instantly wash over me. No matter how much sleep I got the night before or what upbeat music I listened to in the car trying to start the day more positively … the moment I stepped into that building, my energy was sapped away. I felt like a balloon with a slow leak, and by the end of the day, I always ended up completely deflated. I’d look around that office to see everyone hunched over their keyboard, guzzling coffee to keep their eyes open, hardly noticing when someone passed by their cubicle. I was surrounded by people, but it felt like none of us were really, truly “there.” The air was stale, and the walls were grey. It felt like a building full of people who had mostly given up. The energy of that office was so heavy that I couldn’t help but feel the physical effects of sitting in that space every day, and it weighed on me. It was destructive and unrelenting. In this week’s blog, I’m sharing ho