Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time

“Is the Life You’re Living Worth the Price You’re Paying to Live It?” -Tony Schwartz

 Working 12- to 14-hour in a day, felt perpetually exhausted, and found it difficult to fully engage with his family in the evenings, which left feeling guilty and dissatisfied. It made you slept poorly, made no time to exercise, and seldom ate healthy meals, instead grabbing a bite to eat on the run or while working at your desk.

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Most of us respond to rising demands in the workplace by putting in longer hours, which inevitably take a toll on us physically, mentally, and emotionally. That leads to declining levels of engagement, increasing levels of distraction and a low output.

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The core problem with working longer hours is that time is a finite resource. Energy is a different story. Defined in physics as the capacity to work, energy comes from four main wellsprings in human beings: the body, emotions, mind, and spirit. In each, energy can be systematically expanded and regularly renewed by establishing specific rituals—behaviors that are intentionally practiced and precisely scheduled, with the goal of making them unconscious and automatic as quickly as possible. 

The Body: Physical Energy

The Emotions: Quality of Energy when people are able to take more control of their emotions, they can improve the quality of their energy, regardless of the external pressures they’re facing. most people realize that they tend to perform best when they’re feeling positive energy. 

The Mind: Focus of Energy

Many executives view multitasking as a necessity in the face of all the demands they juggle, but it actually undermines productivity. Distractions are costly: A temporary shift in attention from one task to another—stopping to answer an e-mail or take a phone call, for instance—increases the amount of time necessary to finish the primary task by as much as 25%, a phenomenon known as “switching time.” It’s far more efficient to fully focus for 90 to 120 minutes, take a true break, and then fully focus on the next activity. We refer to these work periods as “ultradian sprints.”

The Human Spirit: Energy of Meaning and Purpose

People tap into the energy of the human spirit when their everyday work and activities are consistent with what they value most and with what gives them a sense of meaning and purpose. If the work they’re doing really matters to them, they typically feel more positive energy, focus better, and demonstrate greater perseverance.

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Five (5) Key Principles to Team Management

#Resources are people, too.

The fact that people are ultimately responsible for success is the most important thing to remember about Team management. Soft skills like communication, leadership and emotional intelligence are necessary to effectively communicate with team members in order to inspire and motivate. 

#Visibility is key.

The ability to strike a balance between knowing what motivates your team and what they are working on is important. Make sure that you have a global view of all your members. .

Just remember that the numbers don’t actually speak for themselves: people do. Use metrics wisely to help identify project areas that might need attention, then seek to understand how you can help by talking to the person or the team responsible for success.

#Collaboration increases productivity.

It’s commonly regarded these days that collaboration among team members increases productivity and decreases errors. make enables your team to collaborate and foster both productivity and creativity by organizing get-together or kind of meetings that make possible to your team members to communicate with each other. 

"Nobody wants to be left alone to wither away in a desert" 

Secret to Success

#Transparency fosters trust.

Make sure your resources are aligned and everyone’s working toward a common objective. Transparency is very important:

• Clear Prioritization of Tasks. Make sure people know what’s important.
• Solid Estimates.  Give people the freedom to work on their own way and you’ll not only create more accurate schedules, but you’ll also highlight the uncertainly in your work plan.
• Risk Awareness. People should know that how the ratio works in conversion. this will boost them not to get demotivate in any failure.  

When everyone is open, honest and transparently working together, your team become an unstoppable force of nature.
#Don’t forget to show the love.People perform at their best when they’re passionate about their work. Not surprisingly, when you have resources working on tasks that are outside of their skill-set or their field of interest, the end result will be uninspired at best (and counterproductive at worst).

Appreciate efforts not results. Let people know how important their efforts are. Your team is capable of amazing things – don’t ever let them forget it.

Summery:

• Rising demands → Working longer hours
• Working longer hours → Declining engagement, distraction, high rotation, soaring medical costs

Time is finite resource. Energy is a different story.

Energy:

1. Body: diet, exercises, sleep and rest.
2. Emotions.
3. Mind.
4. Spirit.

Rituals can bring great benefit for each of them.

Body

Rest: our body works in 90–120 minutes cycles.

His walk not only gives him a mental and emotional breather and some exercise but also has become the time when he gets his best creative ideas. That’s because when he walk he is not actively thinking, which allows the dominant left hemisphere of his brain to give way to the right hemisphere with its greater capacity to see the big picture and make imaginative leaps.

Emotions 

• Best are positive energy levels,
• A powerful ritual that fuels positive emotions is expressing appreciation to others.
• Each story can be perceived from alternative perspectives: reverse lens, lang lens, wide lens.

Lensesreverse: “What would the other person in this conflict say and in what ways might that be true?”

lang: “How will I most likely view this situation in six months?”

wide: “Regardless of the outcome of this issue, how can I grow and learn from it?”).

Mind

Focus. Do not multitask.

No phone, no e-mail during the meetings.

• Another way to mobilize mental energy is to focus systematically on activities that have the most long-term leverage. He now tries to concentrate the first hour of every day on the most important topic.

The Human Spirit 

Most people are living at such a furious pace that they rarely stop to ask themselves what they stand for and who they want to be. 

“What are the qualities that you find most off-putting when you see them in others?”

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