The document discusses the importance of proactively recharging your mental and emotional batteries to stay sharp and driven. It recommends checking in with yourself regularly to assess your energy levels, keeping a list of recharging activities tailored to your needs and time available, and encouraging others to also make recharging a priority. Proactively monitoring energy levels and planning downtime helps ensure high performance and prevents burnout for both individuals and their teams.

1. RECHARGE YOUR BATTERIES
PROACTIVELY RECHARGE YOUR
MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL BATTERIES
TO STAY SHARP AND DRIVEN
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2. Introduction
• Feeling relaxed and rested enables
you to perform at a higher level
• Rest makes you and your brain sharper,
your decisions better, and your capacity
to do greater
• No one tells you when you need to
charge the batteries, so it’s up to you
to make it happen
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3. Ask Yourself How You’re Feeling
• Check in with yourself daily, weekly,
and monthly to assess your energy
• Keep it simple with three answers;
Feeling Great, Feeling Tired, and
Feeling Exhausted
• Take time off to recharge before
you’ve reached exhaustion
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4. Keep a Recharge List
• Write down the things you like
to do most to recharge
• Include both simple to do activities
and activities that require
greater investment
• Right size activities to the time you
have and the recharge required
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5. Encourage Others to Recharge
• Encouraging others to do the same
keeps those around you sharp
• Make others aware when they’ve
expressed burn out or you see a
decline in their energy
• Ensure team members are taking
time off for holidays
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6. Recap
• Recharging the batteries will keep
you sharp and driven
• Monitoring your energy and planning
for down time enables you to
proactively recharge
• Encouraging others to do the same
keeps the team running at your level
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7. Ask Yourself These Questions
• What practices will help me monitor my
mental and emotional batteries?
• What activities help me effectively recharge?
• How much time should I allocate to for each activity?
• Where is the best place to store my list of
activities for easy access?
• What is the right cadence to encourage
others to recharge?
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8. Share Your Thoughts
What practices do you leverage to keep
you and your team’s energy high?
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