Boost Your Battery Life
When your phone battery gets low, what do you do?
Well, you plug it in to juice it up before your social life line is depleted.
If we do this without hesitation for the chunk of metal in our pocket, why do we ignore our own battery life?
When we feel drained and down, many of us keep pushing until we are in a deficit.
In fact, when we get burnt out it is sometimes too late to try and charge back up.
Everything has energy, energy is everything.
As a human in all our different roles (athlete, parent, coach, teacher, athletic director, etc.) we have a responsibility to create a vibe and use our energy to transmute our frequency to those around us.
We have a choice to add positive energy to our spaces or suck the positive energy from our spaces.
How we take care of our own battery life determines if we become and energy fountain or an energy drain.
Here are the characteristics of an energy drain and fountain:
DRAIN
Complaining
Blaming
Gossiping
Becoming defensive
Small body language (head down, shrugged shoulders, no eye contact, frown)
FOUNTAIN
Being present in conversations (listening to listen not listening to reply)
Genuine compliments
Searching for solutions to problems
Big body language (head up, shoulders back, eye contact, smile)
Would you rather be an energy fountain or energy drain?
Creating a keen self-awareness and taking care of ourselves when our energy becomes low is the first step to becoming an energy fountain.
Before you can consider the energy you are bring to your spaces, it is best to focus on the things that give YOU energy first.
Energy givers in your own life are simple, but simple does not always equal easy.
Our brains want to overcomplicate things and want to do complex tasks to believe we are doing the most work.
Combat those “complex” ideals by doing a combination of these simple things to “charge” back up:
Chugging a glass of water
Sunlight (great first thing in the morning to align your circadian rhythm)
Move your body
Meditation
Reading
Uplifting music
Fresh air + a walk
Friends + family
Cuddles with a pet
7-9 hours of sleep
Nourishing food
Journaling
Setting (and enforcing) boundaries
Laughter
Tidy + organize a space
Gratitude practice
Awareness of the energy takers in your life can help preserve your battery.
Here are few things that “drain” your battery:
Screens + social media (comparison)
Clutter
Overthinking
Dehydration
Inconsistent sleep patterns
People pleasing
Unclear boundaries
Negativity
Highly processed foods
Going - going - going without rest and recovery
You are in control of how you boost or drain your battery life.
The results of your actions have a direct correlation of how you can feel day to day.
Your challenge today is to create awareness around your battery power.
If you are operating at 25%, what can you do to increase that?
If you are operating at 75%, what can you do to sustain that?
Your ability to recognize your battery life is paramount to the life you want to create and who desire to become.
High performing people understand how important it is to have this self-awareness and use energy givers to become an energy fountain!
What can you commit to do today and boost your battery?
