Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted to change your life, but something always stopped you?

Today there is no time, too much fatigue, unfinished tasks, bad mood...

However, absolutely everything that we see around us is a projection of our internal state onto the external world. But how can you start living life to the fullest?

It is very important to pay attention to what is happening inside us:

1. It is important to form new habits and maintain them.
2. It is important to learn to keep track of all the good ideas that come to your mind about your life, and be sure to continue them! If you want to start playing sports, start from today; if you want to start working on a new project, start it right now.

Of course, it is necessary to take into account the rhythms that always accompany us in our lives. As you have noticed, we always start doing something new when we are on the rise.

There is a lot of excitement, inspiration, anticipation - this is how we start any business. It is this novelty that attracts and invigorates us.

Emotional hole after the climb

But after this burst of energy there is always some decline. The main catch is to be able to maintain yourself in a state of inspiration.

• Criticism and dissatisfaction are the main enemies of all endeavors. If we don’t monitor our condition, they appear out of habit, no matter what we do.

We are very good at feeling bad. When we fall into some kind of pit, depression, laziness, we immediately begin to scold ourselves. We are drowning in a familiar swamp, from which it is difficult to get out.

Fear of moving forward

Try right now to remember what you thought about yourself at that moment when you didn’t want to do anything. What were you thinking to yourself?

1. Realizing that you are faced with a serious task, you suddenly begin to realize the full responsibility of the situation and slow down, even recoil back at the mere thought of it.
2. I want to plunge into the world of melancholy, to feel small and insignificant, but freed from the obligation to go all the way towards my goal.
3. Suddenly you think whether you need all this, maybe you live well with the amount of money you have now.
4. You suddenly become lazy, as if all your energy is spent just thinking about something new.

How do limiting attitudes manifest themselves?

• You understand that in order to earn money, you will have to work tirelessly. Is this really necessary? You start looking for excuses.
• Maybe you always thought that you don’t need to get money, your husband will earn money - why did you even get involved in this game, because others can perfectly increase their income.
• Also, the fear is that you do not have enough awareness and responsibility, while successful people have enough of this. You think that you are a failure and nothing will work out.
• Some people develop allergies due to stress, you begin to get sick more often, for example, your neck gets stuck - the body resists new actions.
• In fact, you will experience downright pleasure from the realization that you cannot fulfill your plans, you have no strength, no time, you don’t know how, and so on.

Such behavior is a child’s reaction: when in childhood our parents did everything for us.

There are no arms, no legs, I can’t do anything. No responsibility, no worries!

We have a whole bunch of excuses: I don’t want to, I’m afraid, I can’t. We will discuss the situation with the husband and partner in another article: the possibilities of earning and attracting money with the help of men.

At this stage, you can see what is stopping you from developing your projects and starting to live the way you have always dreamed. Start life to the fullest!

Now you can find these reasons, choose how to replace old settings and, as a result, you will begin to maintain yourself in a new state. Or you can always stay with the old one. Of course, new installations are difficult to stick.

The main thing is not to give up

Remembering the conversation about habits, you know that they are formed in twenty-one or, even better, forty-five days. All habits are important to maintain every day.

• Do exercises - continue, develop a sense of responsibility for yourself.
• Get into the habit of using .

It is important not to quit what you started, to be attentive to yourself.

Don't let your soul get lazy

We always give ourselves some slack, and one of the rules of successful people is not to let yourself relax.

Rain, blizzard, blizzard, flood - they still go to work and do what they decided to devote a certain time of their lives to.

• Women's excuses give us the opportunity not to stress.
• Our emotions jump, and our mood is very unstable.
• Women are easily hurt, they are so sensitive.

On the one hand, this dignity, such manifestations allow us to be so sensual and sensitive in life, but in terms of work, excessive sensitivity very often interferes.

First, you can keep a notebook of research on your excuses if you want.

Just to write them down, cross them out, work with them somehow, crumple them up, throw them away. It is important to see them very consciously and carefully, to notice when they bloom in lush colors in your head.

Secondly, don't beat yourself up about them.

Do not blame yourself or judge yourself under any circumstances. Just note their existence, treat them neutrally. You look for them so you can throw them away so you can do something with them.

How to work with affirmations?

Many people are interested in the question of whether affirmations need to be spoken out loud or whether they can be mentally reproduced. You should say them out loud, while you interact more with the outside world.

It’s great to say prayers and mantras out loud. I have no doubt that everyone has some moments when they can do this.

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So, it is important not to give up, not to stop there. Even if the achievements are not so tangible for you. You need to be able to enjoy what happens.

Jim Lauer, Tony Schwartz

Life at full capacity. Energy management is the key to high performance, health and happiness

Preface

Cure for downshifting

Many have been waiting for this book for a long time. They waited, not yet suspecting its existence, title or authors. They waited, leaving the office with a greenish face, drinking liters of coffee in the morning, not finding the strength to take on the next priority task, struggling with depression and despondency.

And finally they waited. There were specialists who gave a convincing, detailed and practical answer to the question of how to manage the level of personal energy. Moreover, in various aspects - physical, intellectual, spiritual... What is especially valuable are practitioners who have trained leading American athletes, FBI special forces and top managers of Fortune 500 companies.

Admit it, reader, when you came across another article about downshifting, the thought probably crossed your mind: “Maybe I should give up everything and go somewhere to Goa or a hut in the Siberian taiga?..” The desire to give up everything and send everyone to any of the short and succinct Russian words is a sure sign of lack of energy.

The problem of energy management is one of the key ones in self-management. One of the participants in the Russian Time Management community once came up with the formula “T1ME” management - from the words “time, information, money, energy”: “time, information, money, energy.” Each of these four resources is critical to personal effectiveness, success and development. And if there is quite a lot of literature on time, money and information management, then in the field of energy management there was a clear gap. Which is finally starting to fill up.

In many ways, of course, you can argue with the authors. Undoubtedly, they, like many Western specialists, tend to absolutize their approach and strictly oppose it to the “old paradigms” (for which it is in fact not a negation at all, but an organic continuation and development). But this in no way detracts from the main advantages of the book - relevance, simplicity, technology.

Read, get everything done and fill your Time with Energy!

Gleb Arkhangelsky, General Director of the Time Organization company, creator of the Russian Time Management community www.improvement.ru

Part one

Full Power Driving Forces

1. At full power

The most precious resource is energy, not time

We live in a digital age. We are running at full speed, our rhythms are accelerating, our days are cut into bytes and bits. We prefer breadth to depth and quick response to thoughtful decisions. We glide across the surface, ending up in dozens of places for a few minutes, but never staying anywhere for long. We fly through life without pausing to think about who we really want to become. We are connected, but we are disconnected.

Most of us are just trying to do the best we can. When demands exceed our capabilities, we make decisions that help us break through the web of problems but eat up our time. We sleep little, eat on the go, fuel ourselves with caffeine and calm ourselves down with alcohol and sleeping pills. Faced with unrelenting demands at work, we become irritable and our attention is easily distracted. After a long day of work, we return home completely exhausted and perceive family not as a source of joy and restoration, but as just another problem.

We have surrounded ourselves with diaries and task lists, handhelds and smartphones, instant messaging systems and “reminders” on computers. We believe this should help us manage our time better. We pride ourselves on our ability to multitask, and we demonstrate our willingness to work from dawn to dusk everywhere, like a medal for bravery. The term “24/7” describes a world where work never ends. We use the words “obsession” and “madness” not to describe madness, but to talk about the past working day. Feeling that there will never be enough time, we try to pack as many things as possible into each day. But even the most effective time management does not guarantee that we will have enough energy to get everything done.

Are you familiar with such situations?

– You are in an important four-hour meeting where not a second is wasted. But the last two hours you spend the rest of your energy only on fruitless attempts to concentrate;

– You carefully planned all 12 hours of the upcoming working day, but by the middle of it you completely lost energy and became impatient and irritable;

– You are going to spend the evening with the children, but are so distracted by thoughts about work that you cannot understand what they want from you;

– You, of course, remember about your wedding anniversary (the computer reminded you of this this afternoon), but you forgot to buy a bouquet, and you no longer have the strength to leave the house to celebrate.

Energy, not time, is the main currency of high efficiency. This idea revolutionized our understanding of what drives high performance over time. She led our clients to reconsider the principles of managing their own lives - both personal and professional. Everything we do, from walking with our children to communicating with colleagues and making important decisions, requires energy. This seems obvious, but it is what we most often forget. Without the right quantity, quality and focus of energy, we endanger any task we undertake.

Each of our thoughts or emotions has energetic consequences - for worse or for better. The final assessment of our lives is not based on the amount of time we spend on this planet, but on the basis of the energy we invest in that time. The main idea of ​​this book is quite simple: effectiveness, health and happiness are based on skillful energy management.

Of course, there are bad bosses, toxic work environments, difficult relationships, and life crises. However, we can control our energy much more completely and deeply than we imagine. The number of hours in a day is constant, but the quantity and quality of energy available to us depends on us. And this is our most valuable resource. The more responsibility we take for the energy we bring into the world, the stronger and more effective we become. And the more we blame other people and circumstances, the more our energy becomes negative and destructive.

If you could wake up tomorrow with more positive and focused energy that you could invest in your work and family, would that improve your life? If you are a leader or manager, would your positive energy change the work environment around you? If your employees could rely on more of your energy, would the relationships between them change and would this have an impact on the quality of your own services?

Leaders are the conductors of organizational energy—in their companies and families. They inspire or demoralize those around them—first by how effectively they manage their own energy, and then by how they mobilize, focus, invest, and renew the collective energy of their employees. Skillful management of energy, individual and collective, makes possible what we call the achievement of full power.

To be fully energized, we must be physically energized, emotionally engaged, mentally focused, and united in spirit to achieve goals that lie beyond our selfish interests. Working at full capacity begins with a desire to start work earlier in the morning, an equal desire to return home in the evening, and drawing a clear line between work and home. It means the ability to immerse yourself in your mission, whether it's solving a creative problem, leading a group of employees, spending time with the people you love, or having fun. Working at full capacity requires a fundamental lifestyle change.

Publishers tried to persuade me for a long time to give them the right to use my photograph on the cover of this book, and I refused for a long time, not understanding why I needed it. The fact is that I liked the book: everything in it is reasonable and simple, but what I have to do with it is not very clear. However, I wondered: could it encourage entrepreneurs to take up exercise and save themselves? And I thought that most likely yes. I am for our country to have more talented guys who will achieve success, and the methods of big sport can help them with this. That's how my story and photo ended up here. I hope the book helps you!

Ride your bikes!

Oleg Tinkov

Champion of Russia in business!

When preparing the Russian edition of this book, the image of Oleg Tinkov immediately appeared in my thoughts. It is he who personifies in Russia the image of a businessman who was seriously involved in sports, namely cycling, and applies the methods of big sports in big business. Perhaps Oleg does this even unconsciously, but the result is obvious. He is undoubtedly the champion of Russia in business! And even though he is not the richest entrepreneur in the country, he started each of his businesses from scratch, without privatizing or taking away anything. This deserves special respect.

I have no doubt that if Oleg had not become a businessman, he would probably have won the Tour de France and the Olympic Games. Not less! His irrepressible energy is infectious from the first meeting. His charm is captivating. He is not afraid to be himself and remains himself in a variety of situations - from dancing at an Odessa disco with his “brothers” to dinner with oligarchs in London.

Having gone through all the leagues, from the black market in the early 1990s to the bank in the 2000s, he created such bright brands as Tinkoff beer and Daria products. He has a good feel for the game and knows how to sell a business at its peak in time in order to launch new, even more ambitious projects.

Recently, Oleg entered a new race in the major banking league, creating a bank “not like everyone else”, Tinkoff Credit Systems. It looks like he will turn this business around, proving that logic, energy and creativity work great in this very conservative industry. Surely, having won the Russian championship, he will not stop and will move on to the most interesting world markets. He simply cannot ignore this challenge. Russia is too small for him.

What do big sports and big business have in common? A lot of things. Ability to endure stress – emotional and physical. Ability to recover. The ability to count the opponent’s moves and create the infrastructure for victory. Ability to play in a team and win.

In fact, today's businessmen experience perhaps even greater stress than professional athletes at the highest level. And at the same time, very often they do not take care of themselves, burning their lives at the stake of business. Oleg is not like that. He knows how to work and how to relax one hundred percent.

It was cycling that saved Oleg as a child from the crooked path that many of his peers followed in Leninsk-Kuznetsky and throughout the country. And now, riding a bicycle five to six thousand kilometers a year, he maintains excellent shape. During training, he makes decisions on the most difficult issues, both in business and in his personal life. In his inspiring book “I'm Like Everyone Else,” he wrote that it was during training that he decided to get married to his wife after twenty years of marriage.

I think biking and skiing (another of his hobbies) make him a better entrepreneur and a better person. He lives to the fullest. It is known that we cannot control the length of our lives, but its width and depth are completely in our hands. You can spend even a very long life in the offices of ministries, or you can take risks, open new businesses and markets, and during breaks ride around your beloved Tuscany.

Interestingly, there is a cause-and-effect spiral at work here. Exercising makes you more resilient, you eat and sleep better, your head works better, and you do better business.

Unfortunately, a reverse spiral is also inevitable. The lack of sports in your life and poor nutrition lead to decreased stamina and immunity, which leads to illness, bad mood and defeat.

This book contains the best training methods for world-class athletes and applies them to the lifestyle of a businessman. After reading it, Oleg wrote “simple and effective” on his blog. And indeed it is.

It would seem that if everything is so obvious, then why do we change our habits only when we start to get very sick? Why do we waste our health so thoughtlessly?

In conclusion, I would like to wish you to be different from everyone else. Take the example of Oleg Tinkov and live to the fullest.

Mikhail Ivanov,

publisher

Part one

Full Power Driving Forces

1. At full power. The most precious resource is energy, not time

We live in a digital age. We are running at full speed, our rhythms are accelerating, our days are cut into bytes and bits. We prefer breadth to depth and quick response to thoughtful decisions. We glide across the surface, ending up in dozens of places for a few minutes, but never staying anywhere for long. We fly through life without pausing to think about who we really want to become. We are connected, but we are disconnected.

Most of us are just trying to do the best we can. When demands exceed our capabilities, we make decisions that help us break through the web of problems but eat up our time. We sleep little, eat on the go, fuel ourselves with caffeine and calm ourselves down with alcohol and sleeping pills. Faced with unrelenting demands at work, we become irritable and our attention is easily distracted. After a long day of work, we return home completely exhausted and perceive family not as a source of joy and restoration, but as just another problem.

We have surrounded ourselves with diaries and task lists, handhelds and smartphones, instant messaging systems and “reminders” on computers. We believe this should help us manage our time better. We pride ourselves on our ability to multitask, and we demonstrate our willingness to work from dawn to dusk everywhere, like a medal for bravery. The term “24/7” describes a world where work never ends. We use the words “obsession” and “madness” not to describe madness, but to talk about the past working day. Feeling that there will never be enough time, we try to pack as many things as possible into each day. But even the most effective time management does not guarantee that we will have enough energy to get everything done.

Are you familiar with such situations?

You are in an important four-hour meeting where not a second is wasted. But the last two hours you spend the rest of your energy only on fruitless attempts to concentrate;

You carefully planned all 12 hours of the upcoming working day, but by the middle of it you completely lost energy and became impatient and irritable;

You are planning to spend the evening with your children, but you are so distracted by thoughts about work that you cannot understand what they want from you;

You, of course, remember your wedding anniversary (the computer reminded you of this this afternoon), but you forgot to buy a bouquet, and you no longer have the strength to leave the house to celebrate.

Energy, not time, is the main currency of high efficiency. This idea revolutionized our understanding of what drives high performance over time. She led our clients to reconsider the principles of managing their own lives - both personal and professional. Everything we do, from walking with our children to communicating with colleagues and making important decisions, requires energy. This seems obvious, but it is what we most often forget. Without the right quantity, quality and focus of energy, we endanger any task we undertake.

Living at Full Power examines the four main types of energy: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. These energies are interconnected, they can be spent and accumulated.

Jim Lauer, Tony Schwartz - About the Authors

Tony Schwartz is an American journalist and writer, author of several best-selling books, founder and CEO of the company.

Schwartz began his career as a journalist in 1975 and worked in American media for 25 years. He wrote a column for The New York Post, was an assistant editor at Newsweek, a reporter for The New York Times, and a staff writer for New York Magazine and Esquire. In 1988, he co-authored with Donald Trump the book “The Art of the Deal,” which became a global bestseller. In 1995, Tony Schwartz published What Really Matters: Searching for Wisdom in America.

In 1998, he co-authored the book Risking Failure, Surviving Success with the future head of The Walt Disney Company, Michael Eisner. From 1993 to 2003, Tony Schwartz led the training company LGE Performance Systems as CEO. In 1999, co-authored with Jim Loehr, chairman of the board of directors of LGE, he published the book “One hundred percent! How to organize your workday and succeed in business" (English: The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy Not Time).

The book became a No. 1 bestseller according to the Wall Street Journal, topped the New York Times bestseller list for eight weeks, and was translated into 28 languages, including Russian. In 2003, Schwartz founded The Energy Project, and in 2005 a European branch was opened with headquarters near London. May 2013 Schwartz writes a weekly column - DealBook - in the financial news section of The New York Times. (c) Wikipedia

Jim Loehr, Chairman and CEO of the Human Performance Institute, is widely known for his work in the field of performance psychology. His training center's clients include hundreds of world-class athletes, police and secret services, rescue teams and FBI special forces. Since 1993, his center has been a successful applies in practice independently developed principles of training not only famous athletes, but also senior managers. The book's authors, Jim Lauer and Tony Schwartz, provide a compelling explanation of how to do this and why it's important. In addition, they offer new approaches to managing our power and talk about various aspects that are essential for the formation of reserves of positive energy.

Life at full capacity— Book Review

Energy

We all often experience fatigue, irritability, lack of motivation and other symptoms. According to the authors, this is due to the loss of positive energy. Therefore, people must have a balance between energy expended and energy recovered. Often our efficiency lies not in the ability to work long and hard, but also in the ability to relax during breaks.

There are four main types of energy: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. It is the interconnected and harmonious work of all these energy reserves that ensures life at full capacity. Energy can range from positive to negative, high to low, as the illustration below reflects. The greatest effectiveness is demonstrated by those whose energy runs between high positive energy (active work) and low positive energy (rest and recovery).

Physical Energy

Physical energy is one of the most important energies. It fuels all other types of energy. Therefore, it is very important for people engaged in intellectual work to shift their attention to physical energy by performing some kind of physical exercise.

Physical energy also includes breathing, proper nutrition and sleep.

Emotional Energy

Emotional energy includes your favorite activities and hobbies, hobbies, going to the theater, cinema, traveling and much more. Emotional energy is what you want to do! It is very important to be able to shift your attention to emotional energy.

Mental Energy

Mental energy helps us develop our personality and not stand still. It is worth noting here that our brain is very plastic and we can constantly improve its functioning by giving it mental exercise and learning something new.

Spiritual Energy

By spiritual energy, the authors do not understand the religious component, but our values ​​and goals. Spiritual energy makes us act, gives us perseverance and perseverance. The main component of spiritual energy is our character, which needs to be cultivated in ourselves.

Training and Practice

Setting a goal

Human development occurs from the bottom up - from the physical level to the spiritual. However, changes must be directed in the opposite direction, starting from the spiritual level.

By setting interesting goals for themselves, they become a powerful tool for accumulating positive energy. The main thing to remember is that the goal should be positive, the goal should be yours, the goal should not be selfish.

It is also important to experience true values ​​in our characters - kindness, mercy, care, etc. Values ​​become our virtues when we act in accordance with them.

Be honest with yourself

Pay attention to your negative and positive sides. Studying yourself should become a constant habit. Listen to your inner self. Be flexible - try to critically evaluate your established ideas

Positive rituals - energy management tools

According to various estimates, we can instill in ourselves any habit within a period of 7 to 30 days.

You need to step out of your comfort zone and instill rituals gradually so as not to break down too quickly. There is no need to take on too many commitments at once, promising to completely change your life from the new year or from Monday. Try to concentrate on one important change in a certain time period.

Rituals based on deep values ​​are the best tools for energy management. They allow us to consolidate good habits, define new priorities, change our lifestyle and train the “muscles” of our energies.

Jim Lauer, Tony Schwartz

Life at full capacity. Energy management is the key to high performance, health and happiness

Preface

Cure for downshifting

Many have been waiting for this book for a long time. They waited, not yet suspecting its existence, title or authors. They waited, leaving the office with a greenish face, drinking liters of coffee in the morning, not finding the strength to take on the next priority task, struggling with depression and despondency.

And finally they waited. There were specialists who gave a convincing, detailed and practical answer to the question of how to manage the level of personal energy. Moreover, in various aspects - physical, intellectual, spiritual... What is especially valuable are practitioners who have trained leading American athletes, FBI special forces and top managers of Fortune 500 companies.

Admit it, reader, when you came across another article about downshifting, the thought probably crossed your mind: “Maybe I should give up everything and go somewhere to Goa or a hut in the Siberian taiga?..” The desire to give up everything and send everyone to any of the short and succinct Russian words is a sure sign of lack of energy.

The problem of energy management is one of the key ones in self-management. One of the participants in the Russian Time Management community once came up with the formula “T1ME” management - from the words “time, information, money, energy”: “time, information, money, energy.” Each of these four resources is critical to personal effectiveness, success and development. And if there is quite a lot of literature on time, money and information management, then in the field of energy management there was a clear gap. Which is finally starting to fill up.

In many ways, of course, you can argue with the authors. Undoubtedly, they, like many Western specialists, tend to absolutize their approach and strictly oppose it to the “old paradigms” (for which it is in fact not a negation at all, but an organic continuation and development). But this in no way detracts from the main advantages of the book - relevance, simplicity, technology.

Read, get everything done and fill your Time with Energy!

Gleb Arkhangelsky, General Director of the Time Organization company, creator of the Russian Time Management community www.improvement.ru

Part one

Full Power Driving Forces

1. At full power

The most precious resource is energy, not time

We live in a digital age. We are running at full speed, our rhythms are accelerating, our days are cut into bytes and bits. We prefer breadth to depth and quick response to thoughtful decisions. We glide across the surface, ending up in dozens of places for a few minutes, but never staying anywhere for long. We fly through life without pausing to think about who we really want to become. We are connected, but we are disconnected.

Most of us are just trying to do the best we can. When demands exceed our capabilities, we make decisions that help us break through the web of problems but eat up our time. We sleep little, eat on the go, fuel ourselves with caffeine and calm ourselves down with alcohol and sleeping pills. Faced with unrelenting demands at work, we become irritable and our attention is easily distracted. After a long day of work, we return home completely exhausted and perceive family not as a source of joy and restoration, but as just another problem.

We have surrounded ourselves with diaries and task lists, handhelds and smartphones, instant messaging systems and “reminders” on computers. We believe this should help us manage our time better. We pride ourselves on our ability to multitask, and we demonstrate our willingness to work from dawn to dusk everywhere, like a medal for bravery. The term “24/7” describes a world where work never ends. We use the words “obsession” and “madness” not to describe madness, but to talk about the past working day. Feeling that there will never be enough time, we try to pack as many things as possible into each day. But even the most effective time management does not guarantee that we will have enough energy to get everything done.

Are you familiar with such situations?

– You are in an important four-hour meeting where not a second is wasted. But the last two hours you spend the rest of your energy only on fruitless attempts to concentrate;

– You carefully planned all 12 hours of the upcoming working day, but by the middle of it you completely lost energy and became impatient and irritable;

– You are going to spend the evening with the children, but are so distracted by thoughts about work that you cannot understand what they want from you;

– You, of course, remember about your wedding anniversary (the computer reminded you of this this afternoon), but you forgot to buy a bouquet, and you no longer have the strength to leave the house to celebrate.

Energy, not time, is the main currency of high efficiency. This idea revolutionized our understanding of what drives high performance over time. She led our clients to reconsider the principles of managing their own lives - both personal and professional. Everything we do, from walking with our children to communicating with colleagues and making important decisions, requires energy. This seems obvious, but it is what we most often forget. Without the right quantity, quality and focus of energy, we endanger any task we undertake.

Each of our thoughts or emotions has energetic consequences - for worse or for better. The final assessment of our lives is not based on the amount of time we spend on this planet, but on the basis of the energy we invest in that time. The main idea of ​​this book is quite simple: effectiveness, health and happiness are based on skillful energy management.

Of course, there are bad bosses, toxic work environments, difficult relationships, and life crises. However, we can control our energy much more completely and deeply than we imagine. The number of hours in a day is constant, but the quantity and quality of energy available to us depends on us. And this is our most valuable resource. The more responsibility we take for the energy we bring into the world, the stronger and more effective we become. And the more we blame other people and circumstances, the more our energy becomes negative and destructive.

If you could wake up tomorrow with more positive and focused energy that you could invest in your work and family, would that improve your life? If you are a leader or manager, would your positive energy change the work environment around you? If your employees could rely on more of your energy, would the relationships between them change and would this have an impact on the quality of your own services?

Leaders are the conductors of organizational energy—in their companies and families. They inspire or demoralize those around them—first by how effectively they manage their own energy, and then by how they mobilize, focus, invest, and renew the collective energy of their employees. Skillful management of energy, individual and collective, makes possible what we call the achievement of full power.

To be fully energized, we must be physically energized, emotionally engaged, mentally focused, and united in spirit to achieve goals that lie beyond our selfish interests. Working at full capacity begins with a desire to start work earlier in the morning, an equal desire to return home in the evening, and drawing a clear line between work and home. It means the ability to immerse yourself in your mission, whether it's solving a creative problem, leading a group of employees, spending time with the people you love, or having fun. Working at full capacity requires a fundamental lifestyle change.

According to a Gallup poll published in 2001, only 25% of employees in American companies work at full capacity. About 55% work at half capacity. The remaining 20% ​​are “actively opposed” to work, meaning they are not only unhappy in their professional lives, but also constantly share this feeling with their colleagues. The cost of their presence at work is estimated at trillions of dollars. What's even worse is that the longer people work in an organization, the less energy they devote to it. After the first six months of work, only 38% are working at full capacity, according to Gallup. After three years, this figure drops to 22%. Look at your life from this point of view. How fully are you involved in your work? What about your colleagues?