Energy Awareness

1. Notice your energy

Where do you spend it? When you look at life with an energy lens, you begin to see things differently.

2. What lights you up

Knowing what brings value to your life—joy and productivity—is essential to making smart decisions about where to spend your energy.

3. Recharge your energy

Once you know which things matter most to you, schedule as many of them into your life as possible. Where do you want to spend your mental energy? I find that perseverating over things (or people) that annoy me is almost never a useful way to spend energy. But thinking about what I can learn from something almost always is. Let your mind learn from what charges you up.

4. What is draining your Energy

Once you begin to notice your energy, you will clearly see the things you do and the ways you think that are pointless energy drains. While it’s surprisingly hard to stop doing something midstream, it’s much less painful not to start in the first place. Think of how much easier it is not to turn on the television than to stop watching in the middle of a show. Similarly, just don’t enter a conversation that you know will rile you up and get you nowhere.

How you invest your energy (time) matters

This week will help raise your awareness on where things can look different depending on what direction you want to go with your life.