An excellent tip I hope to incorporate in my daily routine: Focus on enhancing personal energy rather than lack of time.

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Burned-out is easy. Neglect your energy and you’ll go out like an unstoked fire. Fire always cools without fuel.

Ten years ago, Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz wrote, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal. It still sells like hotcakes. They wrote:

“The number of hours in a day is fixed,
but the quantity and quality of energy
available to us is not.”

Those who care about performance fuel their own fire.

“Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency
of high performance.” Loehr and Schwartz

If you can’t name five things you habitually do to fuel your fire, I predict you’ll soon be ashes. Annual vacations don’t count. I’m talking weekly or daily routines.

12 ways to fuel your own fire:

1. Stop trying to control others. Few things drain energy more than trying to make others…

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