Masculine and Feminine Energy

Masculine and feminine energy show up for everyone. It's not relative to you being male or female. Everyone has masculine and feminine energy and they each have their place in how we communicate and interact and get things done.

For example, masculine energy can be that decisiveness, planning, facts and figures, data, those kind of hard, strong, powerful energies. Whereas feminine energy, if you think about that, it's more about your creativity, listening, understanding, nurturing.

To work with your energies and leverage them to help you be more confident and more successful, the thing to do is to take a moment to think about how you behave at work, at home, in your friend group and notice, what are your default energies? Perhaps you tend to be in the masculine at work and the feminine at home. Maybe there's a group of friends that you're more masculine or more feminine. There is no right or wrong, always without judgment, noticing how you show up, and then thinking about how you might leverage your masculine or feminine energy in different situations.

 If you need to get a project done and you've got to figure out deadlines and when to have various milestones achieved, that's a great time to leverage your masculine energy. Maybe in business, making decisions, selecting a supplier, deciding which bank to go with, or something like that. At home, perhaps cleaning out the garage. There's a nice stereotypical masculine energy example, but you know, the masculine energy is going to go in there and get that cleaned out. The feminine energy is going to go in there and spend hours looking through boxes of old pictures and reminiscing. You can leverage your feminine energy for moments like giving employee feedback, or maybe you're choosing your brand colors, or perhaps baking for the kid's school fair.

See how those different energies are going to show up and how you can leverage them for different moments. There's no right or wrong. There's a place for both, and it's about increasing that self-awareness so that you can notice how you're showing up and make an intentional choice about: Am I showing up in the best version of myself for the task that needs to be done now? Or can I make a small adjustment to be even more successful?