I have had many conversations with business owners and leaders around the core element that keeps things alive and vibrant for them, inside and outside of the workplace.  For some of them, it is completely obvious what is necessary for hobbies or their relationships with their significant others to continually be fresh, interesting and engaging. The quality of being fascinated- inexplicably drawn to being with someone and / or doing something is essential.  I also notice some of them somehow compartmentalize this – in other words, what must be true for what they consider their “personal” lives to work somehow don’t apply to their “business” or “work” lives.