2. Why?
• The most critical resource we have, as human
beings, is our energy
• Most of us fail to manage it effectively.
Objectives
• Expand capacity to perform in high stress
environments
• Expand capacity to make personal change.
3. Professional Athletes
• Must perform under conditions of intense
pressure
• Numbers drive everything
• High accountability – perform or don’t play.
• Last year’s record becomes next year’s
baseline
• Without the right energy, achieving
performance goals becomes too difficult
4. Human Energy Crisis
• Paradigm shift:
– Managing energy, not just time, is key to
extraordinary results!
• Energy is 4 Dimensional
– Four distinct but connected dimensions of energy:
Physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
• Sweet spot of human energy – Full engagement:
the acquired ability to intentionally invest full and
best energy right here , right now.
• Mindfulness is intentionally investing awareness
in the present.
5.
6. Ultimate mission
• Reveals your ultimate purpose in life
• The most powerful tool for personal
navigation throughout life
• The single greatest driver of engagement
• Provides directional coordinates for your
energy investments.
7. Questions to ask:
• What legacy do you want to leave behind?
How do you want to be remembered?
• How do you want people to describe you?
• Who do you want to be?
• Who/what matters most?
• What are your deepest values?
• How do you define success?
• What makes your life really worth living?
8. • Performance depends on energy expenditure
and recovery in each dimensions.
• Full engagement requires that we stress by
pushing beyond our normal limits, in order to
expand our capacity.
• Voluntary or involuntary stress/storms can
expand capacity.
• Growth follows stress. Provided that there is
strategic recovery period.
9. • Stress is opportunity to grow
• Protection from stress erodes capacity
• Things that push us the most often help us the
most
• No discomfort, no growth
• We give lift to whatever we give our energy to –
for better or worse.
10. Facing the truth
• Assessing your current reality of energy
management
• Challenges
– Self-deception
– Denial, low awareness of truth
– Complex process.
11. Spiritual Dimension
• Energy associated with our deepest values.
– Purpose driven
– Commitment
– Passion
– Principle-centred
Stories we are given vs stories we create.
Private voice
The most important story you will ever tell about
yourself is the story you tell yourself.
12. Mental Dimension
Role Multi-tasking
• Is the enemy of extraordinary energy
• The human system performs best when we
are laser focused.
• What?
– Simultaneous processing of 2 or more unrelated
tasks
– Result is poor energy management and not
engaged in either task.
Resonate with me personally, agile principles and the way our business, our projects are As how many Ts & Fs.
History:Sports, Law enforcement, medicine, businessTaking care of one’s body is taking care of business.
Q.1 – F : relate to agile principles: pamodoro, WIP – help focus
Why triangle – each dimension – Lowest is the base – building on each dimension.Highest dimension, dimension that least to change. Check-in infrequently.Not the most important, not in order of importance, as each dimension is important in its own right, but on a daily basis, not something we need to monitor.
Changes depending on life circumstances but values remain the same.At your funeral, how would you like to be remembered? Examples.
? Who what gets your energy? ? Aligned with what you want or value in life?
Key to change, awareness, influence your behaviour. Your public voice (what you tell others) doesn’t always align with your private voice (what you tell yourself).
Driving – listening to radio.Talking to colleague & email. Not multitasking: agile – devices away \\ pomodoroTC support on limiting project multitasking
