Productivity Principle 3…
The secret of sustained performance without fatigue
Do you remember the film Groundhog Day?
It’s easy to relate to the painful metaphor waking up each morning to humdrum of a repetitive, uneventful, daily lifestyle.
One of my former colleagues used to quip “another day another dollar”… as if working life was simply a means to meager survival. Not the kind of place I wanted to be in at his age.
Energy is both important for success and for satisfaction.
This table demonstrates your emotional experience when your energy levels are high or low mixed with being negative or positive.
How can your daily experience with work be constantly full of vitality and enthusiastic drive?
How can you sustain high positive energy as much as possible?
I have found the lessons in the book The Power of Full Engagement to be most relevant to my own habit of pushing myself way too far and burning myself out.
The authors demonstrate how top athletes and successful professionals work at full capacity only for brief periods, and then take short renewals completely devoid of that normal daily hard grind.
If you do not exercise regularly, have fun regularly, and rest regularly, then you will never be able to sustain top performance in your professional life. Work, rest and play. A genuine key to a NPs maximum performance.
The secret of sustained performance without fatigue.
Gabriela Sabatini was one of the 80 top professional tennis players trained by the authors of: The Power of Full Engagement, which demonstrates how athletes and professionals can reach top performance when they work full out for a short time, and then take a total and complete break to change focus, relax, and renew energies.
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. – Peter Drucker
Gene Schwartz was one of the highest paid sales copywriters of all time. He worked only 4 hours a day, and set his timer for working in 33 minutes sprints, with 5 minute breaks. Sensible man.
This secret is about maintaining physical fitness and mental sharpness by fully focusing on work whilst you work… and being fully absorbed in play when you play… and having regular ways to rest completely.
“Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency of high performance” - The Power of Full Engagement
Energy Renewal Resources
- If you have trouble managing your energy and haven’t read The Power of Full Engagement
, it’s very worthwhile reviewing.
- See the Universal Electric Body page and Sex, Tantra and Enlightenment.
- Blog: Having enough energy to get everything done >>> Resource: Simple Science of Energy
Continue to Productivity Principle 2: Team Synergy
See the list of all 8 Productivity Principles.
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