Full engagement requires drawing on four separate but related sources of energy: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
- To perform at our best, we must skillfully manage each of these interconnected dimensions of energy.
- Subtract any one from the equation and our capacity to fully ignite our talent and skill is diminished.
The mind and the body are one. To be fully engaged requires strength, endurance, flexibility and resilience in all dimensions.
We build emotional, mental and spiritual capacity in precisely the same way that we build physical capacity.
- Because energy capacity diminishes both with overuse and with underuse, we must balance energy expenditure with intermittent energy renewal.
- To maintain a powerful pulse in our lives, we must learn how to rhythmically spend and renew energy.
We need inspiration to make changes in our lives.
- The first step in our change process is to Define Purpose.
- Face the truth! “How are you spending your energy now?”
Re-source: Repetition
Building rituals requires defining very precise behaviors and performing them at very specific times – motivated by deeply held values.
- As Aristotle said: “We are what we repeatedly do.”
- The Dalai Lama put it more recently: “There isn’t anything that isn’t made easier through constant familiarity and training.
- Through training we can change; we can transform ourselves.”
Just as negative habits and routines in our lives can be undermining and destructive, so positive ones can be uplifting and revitalizing.
- Positive energy rituals are highly specific routines for managing energy
- They are the key to full engagement and sustained high performance.
- A positive ritual is a behavior that becomes automatic over time
- fueled by some deeply held value.
Creating positive rituals is the most powerful means we have found to effectively manage energy in the service of full engagement.
craving and resource from “The Power of Full Engagement by Dr. Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz
