You want those years to be sustainable so that you can avoid burnout. Most of us have long working lives for 40 years or more. Rather than blocking out eight hours of a work day for “work”, you should be allocating periods of focus (“sprints”), followed by periods of renewal. You take the easy way out as you don’t have a sustainable work strategy. So you just scroll through email instead. The afternoon comes around but you really just don’t feel like doing the project. You’ve had the feeling before where you block out the afternoon to complete that important project. The bottom line is that we can plan our time perfectly, but if we don’t have the energy levels to deliver quality work during that time, then what is the point of all that time management? Let’s think about this for a second… What does that actually mean? Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz propose in The Power of Full Engagement that we should be managing our energy, not time. What if we have this all wrong by focusing so much on time management. But there is still that constant pressure hanging over us and we are totally drained at the end of our working days. Getting clear on priorities and blocking out time on a schedule is certainly important. The same 168 hours a week as everyone else. Actually, we have all the time in the world. We feel like we don’t have enough time to get in all done. It seems like there is no space for rest and recovery. We are drowning in countless meetings and never ending to-do lists. There is a constant pressure to always be on, in today’s fast pace, complex, and digital world. “Performance, health and happiness are grounded in the skillful management of energy.” Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz, The Power of Full Engagement “Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency of high performance.”
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