#477 Why Your Energy is More Important Than Your Time

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Careers, Management, Business

4.9 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Ever wondered how Helen and Sarah juggle running a business, hosting a podcast, and everything in between? Spoiler: it’s not about having more hours in the day—it’s about managing energy more effectively than time. In this episode, they share how shifting from a time-focused mindset to an energy-first approach can transform the way you work. From identifying your high-energy moments to understanding how relationships, perspective, and your environment affect your energy levels, this conversation is packed with practical tools to help you work with your energy, not against it. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SquigglyCareers For questions about Squiggly Careers or to share feedback, please email: helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers: 1. Download our free careers tools https://www.amazingif.com/toolkit/ 2. Sign-up for our Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint https://bit.ly/skillssprint2024 3. Sign up for Squiggly Careers in Action, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools: https://bit.ly/SquigglyCareersInAction 4. Read our books ‘The Squiggly Career’ and ‘You Coach You’ [www.amazingif.com/books/](http://www.amazingif.com/books/) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah.
0:03.5	And I'm Helen.
0:04.2	And this is the Squiggly Careers podcast.
0:06.7	Every week we take a different topic to do with work and we share some ideas and some
0:10.9	actions that we just hope are going to help all of us navigate our squiggly careers with
0:15.0	that bit more confidence and control.
0:17.2	And if you haven't already, make sure that you sign up by our Squiggly Careers in Action weekly
0:20.9	newsletter. You'll be able to download the pod sheet that comes with this episode and you'll also
0:24.7	get lots of other links to learn from too. So today, we are going to be talking about energy at work
0:31.8	and why managing your energy is more important than just managing your time. I think it's a slightly different episode to normal.
0:39.6	A bit different.
0:39.7	Because we are answering a question that has come from our audience,
0:42.8	which we get asked a lot from people we know,
0:45.5	people we don't know, like, how do you find energy
0:47.6	for everything that you do?
0:49.5	And I think we need to caveat that
0:51.9	that maybe a lot of people, they see what we do on social media, maybe.
0:55.8	Maybe.
0:56.2	And so there's maybe a bit of that.
0:57.4	Maybe not me.
0:57.8	Okay, see what I do on social media?
0:59.6	It's like, how is there so much content going out?
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