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Success Made Easy through Smart Energy Management & AI Apps
How to Build One's Energy Levels
Unlock your strength and peak performance through smart energy management. Inspired by "The Power of Full Engagement," this approach helps one optimize physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual energy. Discover also how integrating AI fitness apps and organized workflows can help one's professional work or management of MSME operations perform better than before.
Smart Energy Management as an Essential Skill
"The Power of Full Engagement" by authors Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz presents a revolutionary approach to sustaining high performance, health, and work-life balance. The concept values managing energy above time. The authors' core insight is based not on the hours of the day, which are always fixed, but on the quantity, quality, focus, and force of available human energy one can generate. Their framework was drawn from 25 years of work with successful athletes. When applied to the workplace, they report that when energy is managed well, professionals can "perform in the storm", meaning that they can build the human energy reserves necessary to sustain good performance in times of increasing work demands.
Work demands at times increase when there are pressures from within or without. But with energy reserves built for such times, one will be able to perform well. Combine it with fitness apps from your mobile phone, and one can produce full engagement of all energies when the demands of work call for it.
Building up energy through training
Discover how to optimize your physical energy through flexible training methods like the Walk-Run intervals and the Swedish Fartlek runs.
These two training techniques can easily be adapted to the Filipino setting. Both are flexible training methods to build and manage one's energy levels.
In Walk-Run training, one can move forward at a flexible pace. You can alternate between "walks" and "runs" depending on the smoothness and roughness of the terrain one trains on and the capacity of one's lungs and heart. In this training, one listens well to the body's energy levels and adapts to it - running when able, and then walking to recover energy to run again. One adjusts one's speed based on the current energy, the terrain's varied elevation, and one's breathing and heartbeat.
Swedish Fartlek training, on the other hand, is a flexible "running" method. While Walk-Run alternates between "walks" and "runs", Swedish Fartlek training alternates between different running speeds. One listens to one's heart rhythm so that the body can know when to run at a low, moderate, or high speed. The training is also flexible because one can alternate between varying "speeds".
Building Energy in One's Work
Managing one's energy at work is like how an athlete trains for a sports event:
- At work, one doesn't "sprint" at one's task all the time.
- Rather, one alternates between intensive effort and recovery.
- This alternating concept of intensive effort and recovery is what Loehr and Schwartz term as oscillation
- Training with Walk-Run and Swedish Fartlek helps the runner understand his own oscillation needs, and then apply them to his work.
Managing energy in the 3 Areas of AI Work
- Physical capacity is defined by the quantity of energy
- Emotional capacity is defined by the quality of energy
- Mental capacity is defined by the focus of energy
- Spiritual capacity is defined by the force of energy
Balance is needed to manage these four sources of energy at work. Mental focus, positive work relationships, spiritual values, and overall physical well-being is needed to handle work: [1] in the use of AI tools, [2] in the use of organized workflows such as the Ivy Lee Time Management Technique or the the 5-S Method, and [3] in the right choice of ergonomic workspace designs that balance sitting and standing postures to prevent physical strain, improve circulation, promote comfort, and reduce soreness.
GEN AI image of #4 professionals incorporating strategic micro-breaks with stretching exercise
