The Power Of Full Engagement

The Power Of Full Engagement will show you how to manage the only thing worth managing – your energy – by teaching you how to properly maintain the four kinds of energy, accept your limitations, and live a life of purpose.

Doesn’t it make sense to you instantly?

There seems to be never enough time to get things done. We cram, we fight, we work into the night, yet we can never ever catch up.

But just because every day has only 24 hours, that doesn’t necessarily mean time is the thing we need to optimize.

It’s just our default setting.

Let’s turn the tables. Imagine you had all the time in the world. More than you could use. Your day is 100 hours long and you’ll live to be 150 years old.

What then, could keep you from doing everything you wanted to in life?

Energy.

Without energy, you can have as much time as you want, but it’ll be no good. In March, I learned this lesson the hard way, once again. I was stuck in bed for almost 2 weeks, with a severe case of the flu – because I was stressing myself too much before.

Had I managed my energy better, I would’ve avoided the whole thing and not lost 14 days (which feels like a year when you’re sick).

You can come to grips with this truth by simply thinking about how you feel right after an incredibly long stretch of work.

How did you feel after working for 8 hours straight the last time? How after pulling an all nighter? Make your assessment and you’ll see it’s not the way to go.

So what to do instead? Manage your energy! By focusing on being in your best shape you won’t have to stress about cramming more into the time you have, and can instead make more with the time you’ve got. There are four kinds of energy for you to manage: physical energy, emotional energy, mental energy and spiritual energy. Physical energy is the most important and it’s based on how well you sleep, how well you eat and how well you exercise. Without physical energy, you won’t be able to do anything, so most of your attention should go to that. Emotional energy allows you to react to situations with a broad set of feelings and not just let the world push your buttons. It’s the difference between yelling at a poor clerk in the store, or taking their slowness with a smile. Mental energy helps you not cave when things get tough and power through the boring parts at work when you need to. Lastly, spiritual energy is not about following a…