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The Curse of the Capable 
3 Steps to Increase and Manage Your Energy
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A few days ago, I did an interview with Shawn Phillips on The One Thing Fitness, Health and Lifestyle Wisdom Show.
Shawn and I have been leaders in the emerging field of lifestyle performance and I love doing events with him.
In this this insightful 5 minute interview, Shawn asked about the one thing people can do to optimize their energy right now.
I went back and listened to the 5 minute clip again this morning and I noticed a comment that he made at the end of the segment where he mentioned… (I paraphrase) “that people are often looking for a more complicated answer to how to increase their energy, when the answer is simple“.
Now I know exactly what he meant and that he was right on. And yet, I then thought to myself, yes the answer is simple, but the truth is - the simple answer’s are often very complex, not because they are complicated, but because you need to have a full understanding of all that goes into increasing and managing your energy, before you can do it well.
That’s the difference between a lifestyle solution and say drinking a cup of coffee. Drinking a cup of coffee to increase your energy is very simple, but the consequences of relying on stimulants to manage your energy will get very complicated. Learning how to recuperate you energy (sounds simple) but is actually pretty complex, but once you know how, it’s actually is simple.
It’s not enough to say, simply – sleep, rest, recover, (relax) and rejuvenate your energy and you’ll increase your energy; if it where that simple everyone would be doing it. Remember these are lifestyle activities and they require that you have the ability to stop yourself and those two words will reveal allot about your life. If your life is overwhelming for example, that alone will prevent you from being able to do even simple things like recuperate your energy.
So I wanted to share with you 3 steps for increasing and managing your energy.
Note: unlike food and fitness where you are working with tangible items in most cases, to manage your energy you’ve got to develop a mental dashboard so you can manage something you can’t see; managing your energy is a game of pure learning and getting grounded in experience.
- Learn the difference between vital energy and food energy
- Learn how how to actually recuperate or “regenerate” your personal energy
- Get grounded in experience.
After all, it’s not what you know but how you actually live that matters!
PS: I will be uploading content and a very special ebook on this very subject at ManageYourEnergy.com in the coming weeks, I’ll keep you posted and keep sharing some posts on this subject.
Filed Under: Featured • Get Free of Energy Debt • Live In Balance • Periodize Your Schedule • Recharge Your Energy
