Energy Isn’t Your Problem. Boundaries Are

By Sheila Vijeyarasa
Can I tell you something?
As women in leadership, we talk a lot about energy.
How to protect it.
How to sustain it.
How to show up with enough of it to be the executive, the mother, the partner, the visionary.
We invest in morning routines and optimize our calendars, and yet so many of us are still running on empty.
Here’s where I’ve landed after years as a Chief Financial Officer and now as a mentor who works with women in high-stakes roles: the fastest way to leak energy isn’t a bad night’s sleep or a packed schedule, it is a boundary you haven’t set, or worse, one you set and then quietly retracted.