Manage Your Energy Like Money

I want to talk a little bit about energy. You've talked about treat energy the same way you treat money. It's a finite resource that needs to be managed wisely and invested. Can you expand on how someone can manage their energy and invest it properly?

So the simple way to manage energy, I would say, take every principle you know on finance, on how you manage money, and apply it to energy. Create a budget. Do we evaluate every...

Do you have investments? How often do you evaluate your investments? Once a month. Once a month.

Right. And after a few months or a couple of years, you find an investment is doing really badly and would you stay or you may pull out your money and put it somewhere else potentially.

Sure. Yeah. When was the last time we evaluated the people in our life that we give energy to? We don't even do it once a year.

Every year around November, December, I have a list of all the people I'm actively involved with. And I assign statuses to them and how much energy I'm giving. Because I have a finite amount of energy, then I reallocate energy.

So if Steve has been so amazing to me this year, I want to give him more energy. Now energy cannot be created. I can't create more energy, but energy can be transferred from one thing to another, a lot of them are dynamics.

So I go like, I'm going to take money out of Julie and energy out of Julie and move it to Steve. So Julie gets less energy. What does that translate to in real life?

year, I'll spend less time with Julie, more time and energy with Steve. But if you don't have an evaluation process like you do for your investments, you probably have a set of practices on how you're evaluating, whether it's doing well or not, checks and balances, all day, all month, all year long to spend your energy.

I've never thought about it that way. Right. I think most of us are conditioned to think about the energy that we're giving people based on the amount of time we have available. Yes. My calendar appears empty on Thursday, so I guess I have time to do this.

Yes. Because that is the question that people ask, right? Do you have time to do X this week? Yeah.

Can you do X as opposed to what you really should be thinking is, do I want to? And should I based on? How much energy I have. And can I tell you the difference between time management and energy management?

So if time management I say, very simplified, I sleep eight hours, I work eight hours, I'm spending one hour with my family having a meal. If I sat at the dinner table with my family for one hour, I could check the time management box and say, I did it.

My question is when you're at the table for one hour, you're physically present. Where's your awareness? So if your family's eating and you're there with them and your kid's telling you something about school or whatever, wife or husband's telling you something,

but your ball of light is somewhere else, that's where your energy is flowing. It's not flowing to them. So time management wise, you can check the box and say, yes, I sat with my family for 60 minutes, but energy management, you actually gave your family only a tiny bit of energy

because the rest of the time you were distracted and your energy was going somewhere else instead of going to them. So for me, it's not about time management. It's about managing energy.

I could spend five minutes with you and if I'm completely focused, you get all my energy in that five minutes. Or I can spend half an hour with you and my ball of lights all over the place, and that's where my energy is going.

And in that half an hour, you only get a tiny piece of energy. That's why for me, focus is so important because when I focus, that's where my awareness is going. And that's why my energy is flying, where awareness goes, energy flows.

And for me, it's all about giving energy to the people and things that truly matter to me.