Overcoming your very own personal energy crisis
Posted on October 27, 2013 by Vicky Walker, One of Thousands of Executive Coaches on Noomii.
This article re-evaluates time management, offering a perspective on how to stay balanced in the face of overwhelming demands of your time and focus.
Time may be money, but energy? … Priceless.
Yes, that is an unapologetic take on a famous credit card company tag line. There is many a book or article on time management. In fact I Google’d that and got 1.3 BILLION results. Who has time for that?
What if, instead of managing your time, you managed your energy? Confused? Allow me to clarify using you as an example. Have you ever had someone in your life (boss, business partner, spouse, parent, child etc) that after 5 minutes of interaction, leave you exhausted and drained? Did it take much time? Not really. Did it take much energy? Interactions like that can suck it out of you for the rest of the day, leaving you unable to give much to anything else. It is likely because you continue to respond internally to the interaction long after that person has gone somewhere else.
Have you ever gone into your office at the beginning of the day only to see the piles of papers from yesterday reminding you of projects ‘in progress’, messages still to return and files yet to review? Amy Ruppert, a Master Coach, has a program through “Coaching out of the Box” called “Personal Groundwork for Coaching” (http://www.coachingoutofthebox.com/our-goods/support-programs/personal-groundwork). Having participated in this program and having coached others who have participated, I can share that it is an eye opening perspective on the things that we do or don’t do that create our very own personalized energy crisis. It takes you through a personal inventory of the things you identify as energy drains. It helps you articulate in a very concise way, how that bucket load of energy you had is just leaking away and how to plug those leaks. It’s not complicated. That’s the best part. You define the issue AND the resolution.
I am known for my time management skills and my ability to help people manage their time with efficiency and expediency. The best time management plan in the world won’t help you one bit if you have no energy to execute.
You can’t find time. It’s not in that drawer full of broken elastics, keys with no locks and the little doo-dad that no one can quite identify. You won’t find time in your pants pocket, or under you bed. No, you will never find time … because you make the time. You make time for the things that are important to you. And that takes energy; energy that you might be spending on things that will never offer a return. Invest wisely.
