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Energy. Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time HBR, Schwartz & McCarthy, October 2007. Time is a finite resource. Energy is a renewable resource. What is energy ?. The capacity to work. Where energy comes from ?. 4 main wellsprings in human beings. Your Body Your Emotions Your Mind
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Energy Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time HBR, Schwartz & McCarthy, October 2007
What is energy ? The capacity to work
Where energy comes from ? 4 main wellsprings in human beings
Your Body Your Emotions Your Mind Your Spirit
energy Audit Are You Headed for an Energy Crisis? HBR 2007, the Energy Project, Schwartz & Catherine
By establishing specific rituals Behaviors that are intentionally practiced and precisely scheduled, with a goal of making them unconscious and automatic as quickly as possible
14rituals for systematically expand & regularly renew our energy
3. Eat small meals every three hours
5. Take brief but regular breaks away from your desk, at 90-to120-minute intervals throughout the day.
Emotional Energy Rituals Quality of energy
Write it down! What kinds of events trigger your negative emotions?
Mental Energy Rituals Focus Of energy
9. Leave your desk and go into a conference room, away from phones & e-mail whenever you have a task that requires concentration
Switching Time phenomenon A temporary shift in attention from one task to another increases the amount of time necessary to finish the primary task by as much as 25%
10. Ritual of checking voice mails & e-mails at designated times during the day
11. Every night, identify the most important challenge for the next day. Then make it your first priority when you arrive at work in the morning.
Spiritual energy Rituals energy of meaning and purpose
Write it down! What is your sweet spot?
13. Allocate time and energy to what you consider most important
Purification of the heart Sound Heart
The Purification Process First, understand the necessity of having courtesy with God and the importance of fulfilling its requirements Second,be aware of the diseases of the heart, their causes, and how to remove them.
Giving money toward charity anonymously & openly (to encourage others)
Experience hunger One aspect of traditional medicine related to a spiritual cosmology----whether this tradition was Greek, Chinese, or Arab---- is the belief that too much food harms the spiritual heart and, in fact, can kill it.
Realize that envy can never benefit its holder The Prophet said “None of you has achieved faith until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself”
Reflect long and hard on the fact that God alone is the Fashioner and the Giver of Blessings Vanity
Recognizing that nothing takes place without God’s leave Anger
Companies role to support energy renewal rituals in your firm
Renewal rooms Subsidize gym memberships Suggest that people stop checking e-mails during meetings