PERSONAL ENERGY
Everything you try to achieve, requires a disproportional amount of energy.Being homesick costs energy, sorrow takes its toll, managers are the greatest energy absorbers in the world, worrying costs mountains of energy and annoyance wears you out completely. People with a double agenda, an employer who cuts corners, an acquaintance who is lying, a jerk who cuts you off in traffic. Every day and all day long there are situations that require energy or even cause you to lose energy. What are you going to do about that?
KEEPING YOUR ENERGY
You keep your energy by developing mental resistance. You must realize that everything you see, hear and experience, is what it is. Nothing more than that. It is up to you what you make of it. The way you relate to what is or what happens, determines how much energy it will cost you. The capacity to keep yourself in balance with what is happening, is mental resilience. So be wise with your energy. Stay focused. When you do too many things at the same time, you lose a lot of energy. A mobile phone performing four tasks at the same time, empties its battery in a jiffy. The same goes for a human being. Focus and preserve your energy. Working with nice people is also a proven recipe to preserve energy.
Or by working alone, without distractions. And then here is a practical tip: working at the wrong temperature drains energy, whether it is too cold or too warm.So preserving energy is also achieved by working at the right temperature.If you want something but do not want to invest much energy into it, try working in a magnetic way. Make yourself attractive to whatever you want and try to attract it to you in that way.
So you can easily do more to preserve and maintain your energy than you think.
GETTING ENERGY
Getting energy, just like that? True: the sun rises for nothing. But energy may be had. When you yourself are inspired, you feel the energy flow through your veins. So it is a kind of self generating of energy. Living an inspired life and giving inspiration to others is an ideal way to have your energy flowing.
This also goes for passion. That which you feel passionately about, does not cost energy. Think of the employer who drags himself home at five-thirty and then works for four hours at a stretch on his hobby without getting tired. Socialize with people who give you energy, kind people. Eat food that gives you energy. Drink two liters of water a day. And, very important: sleep. Sleep sufficiently every day. Nothing costs so much energy as lack of sleep. A well known way of getting energy is by lying in the sun for a little while or even just by facing the sun. It will immediately give a boost of energy. A lot of people get energy by taking a time out. From the peace of nature, from the peace of music, from the peace of the sound of the sea. And even from the peace of beautiful thoughts, a good poem or a good book. Desire also gives energy ,short conversations, short meetings, compliments, getting confidence and humor. These are all sources of personal energy.
Finally another comforting thought: when you have used your energy, it is not gone. It has changed into a different form. Ready to be picked up by somebody else. You see, and that is what gives me energy again.