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Power to Full EngagingManaging energy, not time is the key to enduring high performance as well as the key to health,happiness, and life balance. The number of hours in a day is fixed, but the quantity and quality ofenergy is not.

4 key energy management principles

1. full engagement requires calling on four separate but related sources of engergy: physical,emotional, mental, spiritual

2. we must balance energy expenditure with intermittent energy renewal3. to build capacity, we must push beyond our normal limits (training in the same systematic way

that elite athletes do)4. positive energy rituals, highly specific routines for managing energy are the key to full

engagement and sustained high performance; The power of rituals is that they insure that we useas little conscious energy as possible where it is not absolutely necessary, freeing us to strategicallyfocus the energy available to us in creative, enriching ways. Creating positive rituals is the mostpowerful means the authors have found to effectively manage energy in the service of fullengagement.

We must sustain health oscillatory rhythms at four levels of what they term the performancepyramid: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.

making changes that endure

1. define Purpose - How should I spend my energy in a way that is consistant with my deepestvalues?

2. face the Truth - How are you spending your energy now?3. take Action - close the gap between who you are and who you want to be

* To make lasting changes, we must build serial rituals, focusing on one significantchange at a time.

* Two behaviors dramatically increase the likelihood of successfully locking in newrituals during the typical thirty- to sixty-day acquisition period.The authors call these behaviors Basic Training.

o Chart the Courselaunch each days ritual-acquisition mission by revisiting vision,clarifying not jut what we intend to accomplish, but how we want to conduct ourselves along theway.

o Chart the Progress hold yourself accountable at the end of each day. Accountability isa means of regularly facing the truth about the gap between your intention and your actualbehavior. Defining a desired outcome and holding yourself accountable each day gives focus anddirection to the rituals that you build. Accountability is both a protection against our infinite capacityfor self-deception and a source of information about what stands in our way.

periodization - following a period of activity, the body must replenish fundamental biochemical

sources of energy. This is called "compensation" and when it occurs, energy expended isrecovered. Increase the intensity of the training or the performance demand, and it is necessary tocommensureately increase the amount of energy renewal.