You’ve likely heard the old adage, “Life is a marathon, not a sprint.” If you’re trying to manage your time effectively without paying attention to your energy management, you may end up with sprints rather than finishing the marathon of life.

1. Energy Management vs. Time Management
You’ve likely heard the old adage, “Life is a marathon, not a sprint.” If you’re trying to
manage your time effectively without paying attention to your energy management, you
may end up with sprints rather than finishing the marathon of life.
Experts are now saying that productivity and success have more to do with how you
manage your energy than it does with time management. As business entrepreneurs,
we often try to do everything that gives us more time.

2. Eating healthy, staying fit, spending time with our children and connecting with others all
take time and we do have to schedule some of our pursuits. Whether we have the
energy for those pursuits is a problem that’s often overlooked.
Trying to adhere to certain times to manage everything can leave us all exhausted so
that we’re not even able to relax and enjoy ourselves when we’ve “scheduled the time”
for it.
The alternative to managing your time is to manage your energy effectively. It works by
taking time for recovering from those lengthy sprints you take so you can finish the
marathon with ease rather than anguish.
Here are some tips for managing your energy effectively:
 List how you like to rejuvenate yourself. Make a list of what makes you feel
refreshed, more creative and lifts your mood. Writing them down will help to
remind you about the benefits of these uplifting activities. For example, watching
a great series or show you’re following on television, sipping a cup of tea and
listening to music can be very rejuvenating to your energy levels.
 Double the time you usually take for breaks. Don’t stick to a time table when it
comes to reviving your energy level. Take an hour rather than half an hour and
have fun with whatever you’re doing.
 Reward yourself for every goal reached. Do you have lots of projects and it
seems you’ll never finish them to be able to relax and enjoy yourself. Break those
projects down into parts and reward yourself after you complete each one –
rather than waiting until the entire project is finished.
 Make frequent recovery stops. While you’re on that mile-long sprint, you may
feel the need to stop and renew your spirits and your energy. Do it! You’ll feel so
much more like completing the marathon and you’ll be happier at the finish line.
Managing your energy is a much more effective way to get through life rather than
putting time limits and making schedules for everything. Your inner energy thermostat
doesn’t pay any attention to the time table you’ve created. Instead, make your energy
the most important factor in the long marathon you’re up against.
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