The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

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We live in digital time. Our pace is rushed, rapid-fire, and relentless. Facing crushing workloads, we try to cram as much as possible into every day. We're wired up, but we're melting down. Time management is no longer a viable solution. As bestselling authors Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz demonstrate in this groundbreaking book, managing energy, not time, is the key to enduring high performance as well as to health, happiness, and life balance.

The number of hours in a day is fixed, but the quantity and quality of energy available to us is not. This fundamental insight has the power to revolutionize the way you live your life. The Power of Full Engagement is a highly practical, scientifically based approach to managing your energy more skillfully both on and off the job.

At the heart of the program is the Corporate Athlete® Training System. It is grounded in twenty-five years of work with some of the world's greatest athletes to help them perform more effectively under brutal competitive pressures. Clients have included Jim Courier, Monica Seles, and Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario in tennis; Mark O'Meara and Ernie Els in golf; Eric Lindros and Mike Richter in hockey; Nick Anderson and Grant Hill in basketball; and gold medalist Dan Jansen in speed skating.

During the past decade, dozens of Fortune 500 companies have paid thousands of dollars to learn the Corporate Athlete training system. So have FBI swat teams, critical care physicians and nurses, salesmen, and stay-at-home moms. The Power of Full Engagement lays out the key training principles and provides a powerful, step-by-step program that will help you to:

• Mobilize four key sources of energy
• Balance energy expenditure with intermittent energy renewal
• Expand capacity in the same systematic way that elite athletes do
• Create highly specific, positive energy management rituals

Above all, this book provides a life-changing road map to becoming more fully engaged on and off the job, meaning physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused, and spiritually aligned.

What Customers Say About The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal:

Their case is compelling and I'm very glad I read this book- I highly recommend it. The authors provide meaningful research and examples, specific tools and insights that have shaped my thinking and approach to my own balance and engagement. A very valuable book. I've been looking forward to reading it for some time and it didn't disappoint.

Loehr also provides numerous resources at the end of the book including a "Full Engagement Development Plan Worksheet." Loehr contends that there is a paradigm shift needed to a life not overburdened - but to one in which energy, not time, becomes the fundamental currency of high performance. "The Power of Full Engagement" is built around four principles:1.Full engagement requires drawing on four separate but related sources of energy: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.2.Because energy diminishes with overuse and with underuse, we must balance energy expenditure with intermittent energy renewal.3.To build capacity we must push beyond our normal limits, training in the same systematic way that elite athletes do.4.Making change that lasts requires a three-step process: Define Purpose, Face the Truth, and Take Action. "Power of Story" was featured in one of my 2009 Catholic Business Journal Columns and "The Power of Full Engagement" will be front and center in a speech I will give in 2010. Before knowing Loehr and his body of work, I implemented a number of his suggestions and can add from my experience that he is on to something profound. He did not focus on their technical or tactical skills but rather, focused on helping them manage their energy more effectively in the service of whatever mission they were on. "Power of Story" began my relationship with books authored by Jim Loehr.

Both are excellent for those who are stalled in their career (particularly those in-transition) or in living a good life. These are presented in two parts: the dynamics of full engagement; and the training system. Unlike most of his followers, I began with his last book rather than his first. His Orlando-based program has now been expanded to including clients beyond top tennis players - other top professional athletes, the Special Forces, Homeland Security, and executives from Fortune 500 companies. "The ultimate measure of our lives is not how much time we spend on earth, but rather how much energy we invest in the time we have." But it was the quality of this book that drew me to reading his first, the New York Time's bestseller, "The Power of Full Engagement." Loehr has earned a prominent place on my bookshelf and on my list of highly recommended books.

Loehr built his career by working with top tennis players (Pete Sampras, Jim Courier, Gabriela Sabatini, Monica Seles among many others) getting them to perform at their highest level.

I now pay more attention to rest and nutrition. The background of these two authors provided outstanding credibility, and I was significantly challenged by the principles therein. Specifically, their emphasis on the importance of proper rest and sleep caused me to change my life-long practice of burning-the-candle-at-both-ends.

As the authors state, energy is "the fundamental currency of high performance". For all those beleaguered 21st century multi-taskers who don't understand why their lives never seem to be in control; this book will provide the relief you need. It makes perfect sense; let's hope corporate America fully embraces this concept. The organization that skillfully manages "energy" makes full engagement possible; which in turn, maximizes its productivity by emotionally and mentally connecting its employees.By following the guidelines the authors lay out, the enlightened organization will experience a new high performance paradigm shift; great results are achieved by focusing on energy, not time. The good news: You are now allowed to lead a normal and much more productive life (which incidentally, could last much longer now).Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz have compiled a wonderful study into the previously murky waters of "full engagement". After you read this book, you'll have an entirely different perspective on what your priorities should be, and in the process, bring energy to your endeavors that you thought you never had; or at least, forgot you had.The central theme revolves around energy, not time.

I experience much less stress and feel like I have control again. WHat I found most helpful, was the suggestions on taking short breaks to recharge your energy and the importance of creating rituals.Speaking as someone who lived his life in a "all or nothing" way, the suggestions in this book were hard to establish, but once a did, they changed things for me dramatically. If you're an incredibly busy person who feels like life can get incredibly overwhelming, you need to read this book. The case studies in this book are incredibly relatable.