After back to HQ, I have been to more lunch time talks these days. One recent one I went to was about Energy Management.
The speaker Dr John Ng says very often people mixed up Time Management with Energy Management. Poor energy mgmt will most probably lead to poor time mgmt, but not necessary the other way round.
We need to identify those Energy Depleter vs Energy Energizer. Energy is such a life force that without preserving it, it will not be possible for one to pursue the goals we set forth.
There are 5 levels of Energy, for which the speaker dwelt a lot on first 2 only, owing to time limit.
1. Physical Energy
2. Emotional Energy
3. Mental Energy
4. Social Energy
5. Spiritual Energy
When one achieves the optimum experience, the FLOW pattern will appear. In other words, one finds true purpose and start to be in the game.
A) To re-coup and prepare for Physical Energy, is none other than having good sleep, enough rest, take in healthy food and have exercise. Sounds simple, isn't it?
B) To get into Emotional Energy, one needs to know ourself and others, thus will adapt the right strategy when dealing with others. The speaker uses simple grid: Introvert vs Extrovert, and Task vs Person.
So for I&T quadrant person: need to give them clear agenda, time to prepare and think, and a safe environment before they will speak up.
On the other end, for an E&P person, they will like to speak up even without encouragement, and brain storm will sure work for them etc
Knowing basic personality difference is yet another simple yet effective strategy to adapt the different style accordingly, without draining one's energy unnecessarily.
There are few key points which I couldn't recall under which topics, but noted down for sharing anyway:
* Past experience will determine our response to Present and Future. Unless we find value and meaning in the past Bad experience, we will always live through the past -- beware, need to Move on!!
* What you Fire, you Wire
* What you Focus, you Magnify
I did follow the Speaker advice to take One action and practise it. Which is to download the Sleep Cycle iPhone app - a fantastic sleeping pattern and alarm app, that makes use of iPhone's sensitive accelerometer to detect your body movement and determine the optimum time to wake you up at the right moment i.e. when one is in the slightest wake up period. I had tried a few nights and had to admit it is pretty accurate. I was gently awaken by a very soothing alarm that I felt refreshed. The app actually tracks stats and can do further analysis. A wonderful app that I come to use it so late. Had heard about it sometime ago. :P
For those interested to learn more about the speaker Dr John Ng, one can find more info from his company website:www.meta.com.sg.
In particular, on Energy management topic, John actually created a few blogposts for this:
Have fun exploring Sleep Cycle app, sorry Android phone users. Oops!! :)
