Notes from Guide Master your 4 pillars of energy
Insights from Blinkist Guide Master your four pillars of Energy
Four main energy pillars spirituality, mindfulness, body/fitness and emotional.
Spirituality
**What do I stand for and do I act accordingly?**
Create a life plan
A document about 15 pages long that outlines my detailed picture of my life. Including goals that I would like to achieve.
Three main questions to answer:
- What will be my legacy?
- What is most important to me?
- How do I get where I want to be at the end, starting from where I am at the moment?
Body and Fitness
We need the energy, not just the time to perform at our maximum. So we need to manage energy properly (and not just time).
The Power of Full Engagement - James E Loehr Jim Loehr Tony Schwartz (Blinkist version)
Notes from The Power of Full Engagment
Work less and take more breaks. Comment: Links nicely with working Remote.
Maximize our physical energy.
- Depends on how we eat, sleep and recover
- Sleep is optimal between 7..8 hours comment: would be interesting to get the science background here
- Working out increases ability to handle complex decisions by 70..80%
Pay attention towards my *focus* and avoid multitasking.
- good connection with MOC Building a 2nd brain to gain a much higher level of focus
- The 5AM Club - Robin Sharma (Blinkist version)
- it matters what you do in the first hour
- focus on high brain activity and avoid getting distracted by Social media or low brain activity tasks.
- in the early morning it is easy to achieve a state of low as more Dopamin and Serotonin are released
- Apply 20-20-20
20-20-20
Move - Reflect - Grow comment: Reminds me of the productivity days by Dr. Antoine Larchez
20 minutes to move
- get sweaty - it creates BDNF proteins (see Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor- A Key Molecule for Memory in the Healthy and the Pathological Brain) that is connected with brain plasticity and forming new neural connections
- sweating also reduced cortisol - the hormone of fear
20 minutes to reflect
- deep peace
- record these thoughts in my Daily Journal
- comment: Try to do more journalling in the morning and e.g. have the Gratitude part embedded in that reflection time
- doing meditation. That also reduces cortisol
20 minutes to grow
For learning and growing our mind.
Emotional
The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work - John Gottman (Blinkist version)
- Ensure good day to day communication
- Surface/notice/use also the small moments to show that I am aware of my beautiful wife
Notes from - The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
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