How To Convert Low Energy Into High Income

1. By Heather Katsonga-Woodward,
http://www.themoneyspotprogram.com
We all know someone with more energy than us. For some unknown reason
even if you can produce just as much work as they can in any given amount
of time, they seem to be able to just go on for hours and hours. They seem to
need less sleep than you do and even after a game of squash or whatever it is
they’ll shower and just rabbit on where as you need a break. I’ll call these
type of people Energizer Bunnies.
Energizer Bunnies are exhausting to watch…so how can you work on their level?
Pretty much, something’s gotta give.
You just have to focus on fewer tasks than they do and make more sacrifices. If you try to do everything that they do you will just
burn out.
For the most part, I need 8 hours of sleep a night and this is how I achieve the same or better academic and financial goals as
Energizer Bunnies.
Firstly, I remember one little piece of advice my daddy gave me when I was a teenager, he said “Heather, there is a time for
everything.” By this, he meant that sometimes you have to give up all or most of the fun stuff for a while in order to enjoy
yourself properly in the future. If you try to have all your fun now as well as get your academic or financial success it just ends
up with you having to work harder for longer.
I thought he had a point so I took what he said on-board.
With this in mind:
1. I sleep for 8 hours almost every night. I rarely compromise on sleep to get work done because my quality of work is
far higher and I am much more productive when I feel well rested.
2. I don’t party or go clubbing much at all. Mostly because after about the age of 23 I stopped enjoying it. I’d been
partying since I was 15 and it kind of got boring. If I did still enjoy partying I would just have to do it less often to
produce the same amount of work as Energizer Bunnies.
3. I’m disciplined about my leisure time. I love going to dinner and hanging out with friends, however, because I know
I can hang out and chat forever I decide how much leisure I plan on having in advance if I am working on something.
Even with that kind of structure I can have plenty of unplanned fun but at the end of the day I have disciplined my mind
to know that no matter how much fun I’m having, if there’s work to be done the next day fun must be cut short.
4. I get help. A cleaner does all the domestic cleaning for me so I can save time. If I expend energy on cleaning I have
less energy for running my business. This is one thing I don’t compromise on.
In summary, I don’t try to live the life of the Energizer Bunny. Ultimately, my idea of fun involves
having more free time to hang out with my husband and kids, reading books in cafes whenever I want,
eating out wherever I want and whenever I feel like it, sending my kids to good private schools and getting
my cleaner to come more often. Even if the Energizer Bunny posts numerous social posts of them moving
from one party to the next, flying to various exotic locations and playing lots of sport I know those are not
my goals so comparing myself to them is fruitless.
The problem some find is that they do want to live the same life as their Energizer Bunny friend. If that is
the case you just have to accept that in the short term you’ll need to have less fun and work harder so that
in future your hard work pays you enough income to buy more leisure time.
There’s a time for everything.