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Emptying Your Cup Is as Essential as Filling It
We’re constantly advised by well-meaning coaches, guides and gurus that we need to make sure we’re regularly filling our cup.
Life has a way of draining us of our energy, creativity, even our humanity if we let it. Without intentionally replenishing what’s been sapped from us, we risk drying out completely, crumbling, and blowing away in the wind.
In our effort to continually be filling our cup, however, we risk overfilling it with more energy and stimulus than we have the ability to deal with.
We can easily take on too much, overloading ourselves with practices, things and experiences — even good ones — to the detriment of our overall lives.
Yes, we need to be intentionally filling our cup. We need to be replenishing our energy, finding new sources of creative inspiration, and unplugging to recharge.
But maybe we also need to be intentional about how we empty our cup.
Maybe instead of letting the energy, motivation, and inspiration drain out of cracks and holes in our cups, we should be funneling the fuel that drives our creative lives toward work and projects that matter.
Our creative juices are meant to flow, following the pull of gravity, rather than sit and stagnate, leaking out slowly from neglect rather…
