How are you wired?: Part 4 focuses on knowing your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual energy and how it affects your performance in business. In the series, "The 90 Day Challenge", I have all my clients take the Full Engagement Self Test from the Human Performance Institute.
The test costs about $49. It prints out a 16 page report on the 4 areas of energy: physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental. The report indicates where you are at, where you need to go and what areas you need to improve overall.
The website for the Human Performance Institute is http://hpinstitute.com/index.html.
To take the Full Engagement Self Test log on to http://hpinstitute.com/assessment_diagnostic.html .
According to the book, "The Power of Full Engagement" by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz, managing energy is the key to high performance in business-- not time nor sales.
Please do not misunderstand me, sales are important, but if you do not have the energy to generate, follow up, and close the sales, it does not matter. The key to high performance is skillful management of energy and being fully engaged in your business and your life.
For example, let me share my Full Engagement Self Profile Test results:
My overall engagement in my life and in business is 66%.
My spiritual energy is 87%.
My mental energy is 70%.
My emotional energy is 84%.
My physical energy is 22%
What does that mean when my score is 66% of overall engagement. The results tell me that I am disengaged from my business and life; I feel challenged and somewhat drained.
Significant obstacles stand in my way of fully igniting my talents and skills. I must pay special attention to development priorities in the physical and spiritual realm, as both are excellent leverage points for greater overall engagement.
From my scores above, you can see my physical energy is real low. Does it mean that my life and my business are suffering right now? No. What it does mean is that I need to address this NOW in order to prevent future problems. In order for me to be fully engaged, I need to increase my physical energy.
In order for me to improve my scores in physical energy, here are some suggestions:
1) I need to have water around me all the time and consume at least 10 to 12 glasses a day
2) I need to have at least 2 to 3 times a week of aerobic exercise for at least 30 minutes
3) I need to do strength training exercises 2 to 3 times a week for 30 minutes to a hour.
4) I need to have adequate breaks during the day for recovery purposes.
There were many more suggestions for me to improve my scores for physical energy. What I have learned is that I can NOT deny it. If I want my business to grow, I need to accept the facts and implement these suggestions in order to improve my physical energy. Sometimes it is difficult to get motivated to exercise, or even to find the time, but I know that it must be done. My wife and I have discovered that if we sign up for one of the local races, we are more determined to train and maintain our weekly workouts. Recently, we signed up for the Virginia is for Lover's race that was held in mid February. I trained for at least 2 months prior; however, after the race was done,I became inconsistent with my runs. When I was training, my physical energy increased tremendously.
Although exercising routinely is a challenge for me, I believe that it is necessary if I want to be fully engaged in my life and business. Being fully engaged is the only way that I will truly reach my goals personally and professionally.
My next post will be "Knowing how you are wired = more clients". I will conduct a video blog and sum up all the recent four posts on "How are you wired" and how it leads to clients.
If you have any questions or comments about this post do not hesitate to contact me or drop me a comment.
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