Protect your energy without becoming afraid to give it.

Guarding your energy can become its own kind of scarcity, where you get so careful about depletion that you stop offering anything. Generosity is part of what makes a life good, and a policy of protection with no exceptions costs you the things you were protecting the energy for.

Decide who gets your generosity rather than deciding to have less of it. Give freely there. Selective and warm works better than uniformly careful.