The Top Ten Energy Drains of 2008
Thanks to the Abington, PA City Stormwater Project for the picture at right, and to Judy H. from the Everyday Bliss R&D Team for sending it in. What a perfect reminder about everyday energy management!
I’ve been taking my own private survey of the Top Energy Drains of clients, friends, professionals and networking contacts for about a year. These comprise mainly women in the 30 – 55 age range from a variety of occupations, many at the management level, creative artisans, medical professionals and CEO Moms. The results of my informal survey are:
1. Our top energy drain is lack of time to fit in everything we’d like to do. The stress this causes is immense, particularly when the needs of children and elder family members is involved.
Solution: Free yourself from the tyranny of time by installing a Time Generator. For help on that see: Everyday Bliss For Busy Women, pgs. 21 – 32
2. Our second largest drain is tolerating toxic people, for which we’ve all learned the new portmanteau word: "frenemy". I can’t believe there is such a word, but it describes "TOXIC PERSON: AVOID AT ALL COSTS!" pretty succinctly. Why would you want to hang out with people you know are going to disrespect you the minute your back is turned? But people do, for political reasons, because the frenemy is spouse of someone important at work, their house of worship, in community leadership or for more personal reasons.
Solution: Please. This is your Life calling: "Dump Drain-o Dan and Dora. Today. No, I’m not kidding. I don’t care how beneficial knowing him/her could be to your career. The drain to your time, energy and sanity is not worth it." For more on how to do the dumping smoothly and healthily, visit Everyday Bliss For Busy Women, pgs. 61 – 66 paying special attention to page 65.
Just for kicks and to look more globally, here’s some interesting results from the LifeHacker Survey asking:
What’s your biggest energy zapper?
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Lack of sleep
34.1% (800 votes)
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Lack of exercise
13.5% (316 votes)
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Sugar
2.1% (49 votes)
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Caffeine
1.8% (43 votes)
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Toxic people
9.1% (213 votes)
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Dehydration
2.3% (54 votes)
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Stress
11.6% (273 votes)
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Taxing environment (noisy, distracting, crowded)
5.6% (131 votes)
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Feeling overwhelmed by your to-do list, project list or email
13.7% (322 votes)
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Chronic pain/sickness
4.2% (98 votes)
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Other
2.0% (48 votes)
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This survey counted in 2347 total votes. Results were as of 10/04/2008 2:34 pm EDT.
Of these Lack of Sleep is huge as you can see. Doing the PM Energy Hygiene Routine from Everyday Bliss pgs. 82 -91will help make the sleep you do get as deep and nourishing it can be. This routine excises any residual stress from the system, ensuring that your nights are as peaceful as they can possibly be.
Have other thoughts? Please comment!
Warmly,
Maryam
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