065: Investing Your Energy in You

The Intentional Advantage

Tanya Dalton

Productivity, 790708, Tanyadalton, Inkwellpress, Management, Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.6 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

We need to manage our energy, not our time, and that starts with understanding where our energy sources come from. Today, I’m sharing actionable tips for how you can focus in on these different areas, from physical to spiritual, so that you are your biggest priority. As we end season 5 today, I know you’ll walk away feeling prepared and ready to be more invested in yourself than ever before.

What’s In This Episode:

The importance of shifting your focus so you can use energy wisely.
Actionable tips for maximizing energy physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
How to invest in yourself and prioritize YOU when someone else is managing the tasks and schedule.
The best way to invest in yourself by creating an intentional mindset.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Productivity Paradox from Inkwell Press, a podcast focused on finding success and happiness through the power of productivity.
0:09.4	Each season, Tanya focuses on specific strategies to help you discover your own priorities and purpose.
0:15.2	Season five is all about investing in you.
0:18.4	You can also join Tanya for more interaction and support in her free Facebook group
0:22.3	at Incwellpress.com slash group. And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello everyone. Welcome
0:30.6	to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode 65. Today's episode is brought to you by Inkwell Press and their brand new academic year planners
0:42.4	launching this month.
0:43.8	I'll be sharing a little bit more about that later on in the show.
0:47.6	But let's go ahead and dive in because today is the final episode of season five where
0:53.4	we've been talking about investing in you. So I wanted to
0:57.1	take the time today to talk about investing your energy in yourself because we want to manage your
1:04.4	energy, not just your time. This is about how we invest in ourselves. For some reason, it's drilled into us that working solidly for eight hours or more will absolutely increase your output.
1:17.6	It will increase your efficiency and your productivity.
1:20.6	But really, this couldn't be more wrong.
1:24.0	A workplace study found that an average working professional experiences 87 interruptions in a regular workday,
1:31.8	which means, yeah, you may be working long hours, but you're really having a hard time staying focused,
1:38.3	staying truly productive, and staying energized for that full amount of time.
1:42.8	It's impossible.
1:44.8	So really, if organizations want to re-energize their workforce,
1:50.0	they need to shift their emphasis from getting more out of people to investing in them.
1:55.5	So they're more motivated to bring their energy to work every single day.
1:59.9	We as individuals ourselves, we need to recognize the cost of behaviors that deplete our energy
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