Manage Your Energy

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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