Before a single dollar leaves your account, something else is already being spent:
Your presence.
Your focus.
Your energy.
Not all costs show up on paper.
Some live in your bones—tied to the tasks, relationships, and requests that pull from your life force like it's a bottomless well.
Some things are just too damn expensive—and I’m not talking about what’s on the invoice.
I’m talking about:
The emotional labor of performing “chill” when someone crosses a boundary. Again.
The time it takes to recover from giving too much for too little.
The self-abandonment tax you pay every time you say yes from obligation instead of alignment.
If it costs your nervous system, it costs too much.
Period.
Taylor Swift recently said it best:
“You should think of your energy as if it’s expensive. As if it’s a luxury item. Not everyone can afford it. Not everyone has invested in you in order to be able to have the capital for you to care about this.”
Read that again. And then again.
Too often, people are trying to consume our energy like Lunchables—pre-packed, bite-sized, and ready for mass consumption—when what we’re offering is actually an artfully displayed charcuterie in a beautiful Parisian café.
Curated. Complex. Best savored slowly by those who know how to treat it.
And, too many people want charcuterie at Lunchable prices.
They crave the richness of your care, but only if it comes pre-sliced and underpriced.
They might call you difficult. Selfish. Too much.
They’ll say you’re the problem. Maybe.
But only if the problem is your refusal to play broke on your worth.
Your energy is vintage champagne—poured, not chugged.
Your care is couture—tailored, never off the rack.
Your time is box seats—not general admission.
And when you honor your energy as the priceless gift it is, your money starts reflecting that shift.
You’ll feel it in the rate you set without flinching.
In the clients who rise to meet you.
In the overflow that feels less like luck, more like law.
Every bill you pay and every deposit you receive tells the story of how you’ve valued your energy—or let it be siphoned—because money doesn’t lie. It reveals.
Money mirrors agency.
It will show you what you prioritize.
It will reveal where your energy is leaking—
and where it flows freely,in both directions, how it amplifying your impact.
That underpriced offer?
A siphon.
That client who always needs “just a quick call”?
An energetic overdraft.
That sense of guilt when you charge more than your mom’s voice thinks is “reasonable”?
An old currency you no longer have to accept.
We are rebalancing the books.
We are recalibrating value.
We are reclaiming profit—not as greed, but as energetic equilibrium.
In this economy, your ‘no’ is an investment strategy.
Delegate it.
Delete it.
Declare it dead to you.
Because when your energy is treated like the precious capital it is, your bank account starts catching up to your soul’s valuation.
Reflection Prompts:
Where are you spending energy like you’ve got an endless supply?
Who’s still operating on a payment plan that includes your self-sacrifice?
What becomes possible when your energetic boundaries become part of your business model?
👉 This week, choose one place to raise your energetic rate—whether that’s your pricing, your boundaries, or the unpaid work you are no longer willing to fund with your free time—and declare the old price of your care officially expired.
🔥 Daily Affirmation:
My energy is sacred currency.
Every breath, a blessing. Every yes, an investment.
I reserve my brilliance for what feeds the flame.
I lead from overflow, guided by desire and devotion.
I am richly sourced, wildly returned, and exquisitely expensive to the misaligned.
PS:
Your job is to raise your energetic rate—and your standards.
Because in the energy economy,
every time you honor your intrinsic value,
you’re not just building wealth—you’re setting the exchange rate of worth for all of us.
That recalibration? That’s profit as protest.
🎵 Song of the Day: “Anti-Hero” by Taylor Swift
Damn! So good