I want to recommend a book to you that will absolutely change your life.
Forever.
It doesn't matter what holds you back--lack of enthusiasm, procrastination, lack of focus, low energy.
The book is The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz.
To get more done in your life, it's not about managing time, it's about managing your energy.
That's very powerful.
It's not about the time, it's about you and your energy.
And once you really understand the concept, it's amazing what you will be able to do.
There are four sources of energy: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
With each source, we must find a way to balance energy use and energy renewal.
When any energy source is out of balance, we become burned out and our performance suffers.
We become disengaged.
To change this, we must increase the capacity of each energy source by pushing beyond our normal limits and then renew the source with a corresponding rest period.
It's exactly the way we increase our physical strength.
We work out a muscle to exhaustion and then we rest it.
That push and rest is what makes the muscle stronger.
The rest period is key.
But if we have too much rest, our performance will also suffer.
Just like an unused muscle can atrophy.
It's a fine balance.
So how do we find that balance? We create positive energy rituals in our lives.
Rituals are specific routines that we do without even thinking about them.
We have hygiene rituals and holiday rituals.
Most of us have rituals that our parents engrained in us.
Some of these rituals may or may not be serving us well now.
We can create new rituals and the authors teach us exactly how to do so.
The Power of Full Engagement will teach you how to manage your energy to achieve your highest performance ever.