Fuel Your Fire

With Spring Break around the corner, I wanted to spend a little time talking about the power of renewal.  Some of you will be taking vacations filled with fun activities.  Some people will be diving into a new book (like Smart Trust or The 3^rd Alternative) and others will simply be finding time to simply relax.

In FranklinCovey’s newest offering, The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity, we learn that renewal has a major effect on worker productivity.  In Choice 5: Fuel Your Fire; Don’t Burn Out we spend time educating participants (based on the latest brain science) about the 5 key energy drivers:

In the program video titled, Energy Crisis, Leigh Stevens, Program Architect, explains the following, “Our quality of life is influenced dramatically by the amount of energy we have.  Energy influences not only what we can accomplish, but how much we enjoy what we do.  Yet, so many of us are worn down and worn out by the urgencies of life that we end up suffering from a personal energy crisis.”

Leigh further explains, “We have two basic sources of energy. The first is our sense of purpose. When we’re doing things that are important and meaningful to us, we’re filled with energy. We give our best and enjoy making the effort. …  The second source of energy is our physical and mental capacity. Even if we’re excited about the purposes in our lives, we might lack the energy in our bodies and our brains to enjoy them or even give them our best effort.”

While vacations are a great part of renewal, they are often few and far between,  Continual renewal is really what helps drive our daily productivity.  If you feel like your life is on autopilot, you probably aren’t really contributing your best self, day in and day out at work or event in your close relationships.

If you want to learn more about increasing productivity in your life, consider joining us for one of our special 5 Choices preview events in your area: Dallas on 4/17/12 or Oklahoma City on 5/09/12. 

For more information about transforming the productivity in your organization, contact me to set up an appointment with your Client Partner and a Consultant from our Global Productivity Practice.  You can request a meeting simply by filling out a request using our Online Appointment Book on this page (top right) or by sending me an email directly.

Wishing you a great week of renewal!

- John Vakidis