When Energy Goes Unspent

Unspent energy does not just sit there quietly. It compounds. Each skipped day of real work stacks onto the last, and the bill always comes due — as a dug-up bed, a shredded cushion, or a sixty-pound greeting at the front door. A bored working dog will invent a job, and its inventions rarely match yours. The fix is not more punishment for the symptom. It is paying the energy bill before the dog collects it.