Hi, I'm Sarah Ellis and I'm Helen Tupper and you're listening to the Squiggly Careers podcast.

Every week we talk about a different topic to do with work and discuss practical ideas and actions to help you find your way through our squiggly world of work.

And this week we're going to be talking about energy at work.

What gives us energy, perhaps

what takes it away, and how to get more of it.

And sometimes I think we mistake energy for, oh, somebody is energetic.

Exuberance.

Exuberance, yeah.

And I guess some of that falls into the territory of, oh, you're more of an introverted

person or an extroverted person and I think sometimes

you know like energy can be quite visible in some people I think what we're really talking about

today is the energy that you feel inside and also how you recharge that energy what that looks like

which at the moment given the stamina that we all need, is really important

because that's what energy helps us with. It helps us to keep going and actually increases

our capacity to get things done. So one of the useful resources that we have found researching

today's podcast is there is a really good article on Harvard Business Review, which actually I particularly

like the title of the article, which is manage your energy, not your time. Definitely worth

to read. Obviously, we'll include the link in today's podcast notes. And one of the things

that it includes within that article is not quite a survey. It's more a set of questions that you can ask yourself

about your energy to do with body, emotions, mind and spirit. I just found that quite an interesting

set of questions to just work my way through and think, oh, is there a particular area where

I feel like I'm doing quite good job and that's helping me to have energy

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