Monthly Archives: July 2018

Talk with Tom: Episode #40 | TwT Motivational Minute: Identifying Your Life’s Purpose

 

Once a year I hold a success retreat entitled Create The LIFE You Want. One of the first exercises I facilitate for the group is on finding one’s Life Purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring one’s life purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take. They take the time to understand what they’re here to do – and then they pursue that with passion and enthusiasm. In today’s episode of my Talk with Tom Motivation Minute I give you that exercise in short form.


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Why You Need to Manage Your Energy Not Your Time

 

Why You Need to Manage Your Energy Not Your Time

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Life Area: Physical and Personal 
Topic: Energy Management


Why You Need to Manage Your Energy Not Your Time

 

Every day we feel the pull from every direction. Your home life demands your time. Your work life demands your time. And when do you get that so needed “me” time? Managing time can feel like the right solution. But if you’re mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually exhausted, more time won’t help.

So how can we become more productive without risking both our mental and physical health?  We manage our energy of mind, emotions, body and spirit: our mind energy, our emotional energy, our physical energy, and our spiritual energy. CEO of the organizational performance consultancy group The Energy Project, Tony Schwartz, author of The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working and co-author of the book The Power of Full Engagement, puts it this way in his Harvard Business Review article entitled “Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time”: focus on how you cultivate more energy, instead of obsessing over your time.

 

Mental Energy – Our Mind

Reduce interruptions during your day by only checking emails at designated times. Here’s the key. Make sure your team knows those times. If everyone knows that they won’t hear from you until 1pm, you’ve created a buffer for deep work. The more long stretches of deep work, the more you’ll be able to get into flow, and create higher quality work. I’m sure you have read the book Deep Work by Cal Newport, and if not, order it here from Amazon and you will find it a valuable read.

 

Emotional Energy – Our Emotions

Meditate. Start with an awareness of your breath. When you breathe in make sure your belly expands. Not the other way around.

If you have trouble clearing your mind, make sure you at least have a mantra, an affirmation. When I began meditating I would simply say “One” on the inhale and “Two” on the exhale.

One of the most valuable things I’ve ever done for myself and my career was to start meditating every day. The mental, emotional, health, AND SUCCESS benefits of daily meditation are truly amazing. Traditional meditation can take a long time to master (and even longer to start enjoying the benefits). But now you can start to reap all the incredible benefits of meditation from the very first day, in only 10 minutes!

Check out my FREE 7-Day Guided Mindfulness Meditation Audio Series where I will personally guide you through seven 10 minute meditations. You can access them anytime, from anywhere, from any device, right from that page OR you may download them and listen to each of the seven sessions any time you want.

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One of the most valuable things I’ve ever done for myself and my career was to start meditating every day.

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Talk with Tom: Episode #39 | TwT Motivational Minute: Focus and Task Management

 

In this episode of the Talk with Tom Motivational Minute, Tom gives us ideas from his own experience and tools that help him focus and manage his goals and prioritize his tasks.


Every month Tom shares topic after topic to Grow Your Life and Build Your Business. If you’re not already a subscriber, join us. Talk with Tom is 100% free, and there are special benefits available only to our subscribers, so be sure you subscribe yourself on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts, and we look forward to seeing you right back here on the last Wednesday of every month with Talk with Tom.