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How to Engage and Increase Your Energy
Time. We often let it become the bane of our existence, trying to do all the things, feeling like there’s not enough time for everything.
Can you relate?
But here’s the thing…
Truth Bomb: Time is going to keep moving. There's literally nothing you can do about it.
Don’t despair though. While we can’t control time, we can manage our energy. Which in turn helps us manage our day and our productivity levels.
By engaging and managing your energy you can get more done and in way that feels good to you. Not busy or stressful.
Here are some leadership tips to help you engage your energy:
1. Consider your physical body: are you getting sleep, nutritious food, water, daily movement?
2. Check in with your spiritual self: what do you do to connect to purpose and self? Do things that give you a sense of calm and clarity.
3. Tend to your mental activity: stimulate your mind with learning and activity, but give your mind time to recover by...
Feeling Burnout Vs. Renewed Energy- What do you Feel?
You feel very different things when you experience burnout versus renewed energy. Become in tune with how each makes you feel so you can begin to evoke the story you want for your life.
Burnout energy is that draining feeling you have when something exhausts you. Do you feel pressure in your head or tightness in your stomach?
What are some things that drain your energy? Is it being stuck in traffic? Or maybe it is being late for an important meeting? Maybe for you it is anticipated conflict?
What are somethings that renew your energy? Massage, sleep, play with friends?
Take some time and write out what burnout and renewing your energy feels like for you.
How do you renew your energy?
My number one way to renew is solo time with silence. Mine may be different from yours. Writing down what you feel helps you to realize more quickly that you are living in your energy or living in burnout...
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Kristen Truman-Allen, PhD, MS, RN, PCC
Kristen Truman-Allen is on a mission to ensure that every leader and the people they serve, live a fully engaged and integrated whole life. Kristen brings her experiences as Health Care Administrator, Emergency nurse, Outward Bound expeditionary learning instructor and Organization Development professional into her coaching for executives and formal leaders in organizations. With a PhD in Human Development and a Master’s in Human and Organization Systems, Kristen uses metaphor and intuition in her coaching of organizations and individual leaders to help them have the energy to integrate what’s most important to them. Kristen balances her family of 6, travel adventure, business and play and is passionate about evoking inspiration and impact in our world.