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Manage Your Energy
August 6, 2014
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
-Carl G. Jung

In the Harvard Business Review book, On Managing Yourself, Tony Schwartz and Catherine McCarthy offer a wide range of ideas on managing your energy.  Here are a few examples:

  • Physical energy — Take brief but regular breaks away from your desk, at 90- to 120-minute intervals throughout the day.
  • Emotional energy — Look at upsetting situations through a new lens....  Employ a wide lens to ask, "How can I grow and learn from this situation."
  • Mental energy — Every night, identify the most important challenge for the next day.  Then make it your first priority when you arrive at work the next morning.
  • Spiritual energy — Identify your "sweet spot" activities — those that give you feelings of effectiveness, effortless absorption, and fulfillment.  Find ways to use more of these.






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Comments (2)

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kathy · August 06, 2014
Ottawa , ON, Canada


I think the author means to leave your desk every 90 to 120 minutes, for a short period to stretch your legs, get fresh air, etc.

Judy Metzger · August 06, 2014
United States


Do you mean 90 to 120 seconds? Who can leave their desk for 90 to 120 minutes???



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