You’ve likely heard the old adage, “Life is a marathon, not a sprint.” If you’re trying to manage your time effectively without paying attention to your energy management, you may end up with sprints rather than finishing the marathon of your life.
Experts are now saying that productivity and success have more to do with how you manage your energy than it does with time management. Whether it is in business, professional, family or social situations, we often try to do everything that gives us more time.
Eating healthy, staying fit, spending time with our children and connecting with others all take time and we do have to schedule some of our interests. Whether we have the energy for those interests is a problem that’s often overlooked.
Trying to adhere to certain times to manage everything can leave us all exhausted so that we’re not even able to relax and enjoy ourselves when we’ve “scheduled the time” for it.
The alternative to managing your time is to manage your energy effectively. It works by taking time for recovering from those lengthy sprints you take so you can finish the marathon with ease rather than anguish.
Here are some tips for managing your energy effectively:
List how you like to rejuvenate yourself. Make a list of what makes you feel refreshed, more creative and lifts your mood. Writing them down will help to remind you about the benefits of these uplifting activities. For example, watching a great series or show you’re following on television, sipping a cup of tea and listening to music can be very rejuvenating to your energy levels.
Double the time you usually take for breaks. Don’t stick to a time table when it comes to reviving your energy level. Take an hour rather than half an hour and have fun with whatever you’re doing.
Reward yourself for every goal reached. Do you have lots of projects and it seems you’ll never finish them to be able to relax and enjoy yourself. Break those projects down into parts and reward yourself after you complete each one – rather than waiting until the entire project is finished.
Make frequent recovery stops. While you’re on that mile-long sprint, you may feel the need to stop and renew your spirits and your energy. Do it! You’ll feel so much more like completing the marathon and you’ll be happier at the finish line.
Managing your energy is a much more effective way to get through life rather than putting time limits and making schedules for everything. Your inner energy thermostat doesn’t pay any attention to the time table you’ve created. Instead, make your energy the most important factor in the long marathon that is your life, its worth it.
Remember that a journey is a series of destinations, and worth stopping to spend time at each.
Good luck, Paul.
Make Your Body Work For You
Season 2: Your Energy And You
You must have energy to enjoy and achieve results from anything you do in life. Some people seem to have an abundance of energy to do anything, while others struggle with every little task they face. There are ways to increase your personal energy and become a vibrant and successful person.
To enjoy a happy and vibrant energy level, and shift from lack of energy to an abundance of energy, you must tap into the powers that only you hold – starting with being able to love yourself enough to take care of yourself.
You, and only you, can make the choices that determine whether you will be successful or always sitting outside of the success you want and deserve. Make wise choices when it comes to your well being.
Season 1: Body Language And You
You thought everything was fine at work. Now you’re caught up in a workplace drama and have no idea how you got there. What do you do when you’ve been saying all the right things to the right people and are still up a tree?
Chances are, while the words were great when talking to your coworkers, your body language wasn’t. Where did you go wrong?
Does this sound all too familiar as it will happen to most people at some point in their lives. Whether it is at work, socially or with family we often get caught up in the unexpected dramas of others not understanding you.
This series helps you get the basics right in giving of the right meaning so that you are saying what you want and not giving off unexpected messages.
Have fun and try them out, after all change only happens when you take action.
Best wishes,
Paul Mracek
