Energy Management

We talk about time management, and we talk about diet and physical fitness.  If we add those three things together we get energy management. 

We all have the same amount of time.  What we really want is to feel good and have enough energy throughout our day to do what we want.

We don’t want to wake up tired.  We don’t want to run out of gas at 4pm.

If we feel good, we can take on anything.

Life is good when we feel good.

Lately I have been optimizing for energy management – not how much weight I lift, how far I run, or how much of ________ I can endure.

I want to feel good and have energy each day.

Part of having energy, besides eating well, exercise and good sleep is identifying the people, activities and places that energize you and prioritizing them.  Having a goal that turns you on generates energy.  

How much energy do you feel these days? 

What can you do to have more energy and feel good each day?

 

Earners are learners

If you want to earn more, you have to learn more.

I developed a habit of reading or listening to voices of value, and it meant everything to my career.

The things I learned had a very long shelf life – I could use them for decades or forever.

Do you learn everyday?  

From who?

Take Full Responsibility

The very top people took full responsibility for their life outcomes.  They knew that if they blamed others, they would give their power away to them. 

They looked at what they were doing to cause the results they were getting, and if they didn’t like it, they controlled the controllables and changed what they were doing, not doing, who and where they were hanging around, and what they were learning and paying attention to in order to change the results they were getting.

They didn’t wait for anyone to “let them”.  They just didn’t let anyone stop them.

Your life and your situation – take full responsibility.

Protect your attention

Human attention is the most heavily hunted, mined and traded resource on the planet.  

If you are on social media a lot, you are the one being bought and sold.

I see people who spend nearly all their time looking at their phone, and when the phone goes away, they are lost.  They have nothing of their own.  They don’t know what to do.  They have no goals of their own to work towards.  They have become a product of the machine, and lost some percentage of themselves in the process.

When I go on YouTube, I can feel myself getting sucked in.  I can be there for hour after senseless hour.  What I want is mixed in with what I don’t.  It takes a lot of self-control to resist.

Can you sit alone for two hours by yourself, no device, with a pad or journal and some pens and work towards your better future?

Can you walk outside without a device and engage with the world without it?

It’s a start.

Protect your attention.

What brings you joy and happiness?

Let me give you an unexpected flip on the question from author Michael Singer –

“If you can feel joy and happiness all the time, who cares what happens on the outside?”

Nothing can bring you joy and happiness for long.  Only you can do that.