Manage your energy, not your time

- a recipe for managing well-being in today's busy world

Are you in the habit of feeling energised?

On a scale of 1 to 10 how energised do you feel during the week on average?

Do you start your week well, but as the week goes on, your energy goes down?

Do you often use weekends to recover from the week?

It is possible to feel good ALL the time...

By looking holistically at where your energy goes

The Zenergos model

Physical

Emotional

Spiritual

Mental

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You need all FOUR areas

to be super-energised and resilient

Physical

A lack of fitness, poor sleep habits, or working too many hours will leave you sleepwalking through your life.

Emotional

An inability to manage your emotions, particularly under pressure, and a drop in self confidence, can weigh you down with unnecessary stress.

Mental

A lack of planning or poor prioritisation will drain your energy reserves and play havoc with your focus.

Spiritual

If you don’t love what you’re doing or feel connected to a purpose, then you won’t have that bedrock of internal energy to support you.

What's draining your energy?

A good starting point is to figure out which area you are weakest in

The app provides a questionnaire you can fill in that will tell you.

Pick ONE area to work on

Creating new habits needs a high level of willpower

Willpower comes from the most easily exhaustible part of our brain, the Pre Frontal Cortex (PFC)

Our PFC makes decisions and

solves problems

When it's knackered, our willpower fails

At the core of every habit is a neurological loop that consists of three parts:

1. a Cue
2. a Routine
3. a Reward.

You wake up in the morning and think:

‘Right this evening when I get back from work, I’m not going to reach for a beer and slob out in front of the TV, instead I shall go for a run’.

The Cue is getting home from work

The Routine is the behaviour of reaching for the beer

The Reward is feeling relaxed and de-stressed after a hard day at work.

Identify the Cue to any unhealthy habits (or routines) we are trying to replace

Understand what Reward we are craving

Try a different Routine (or behaviour) that will give you the same reward.

Make sure your habit is achievable and realistic

Don't overload your brain in the first place

Make a small step, you can build from there

Make sure the new habit gives you the same reward as your old one

In the previous example, is going for a run going to give you the relaxed feeling you are craving?

What could?

The key to success is in the planning

It takes 28 - 66 days to create a new habit - long term commitment

Pick times when your brain is not completely knackered

In your diary, plan what you are going to do and when you are going to do it, weeks out into the future.

• Find out what areas you are weakest in
• Help you build new habits
• Provides lots of meditations for instant calm
• Facts and information
• Track your progress over time

• To sustain highy resilient energy levels you need to think about your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual habits
• Plan your habit building way in advance
• Building habits is hard, take it one step at a time
• Keep retaking the questionnaire to track your progress
• Celebrate your success!!!!!

Questions?

Thank you

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