76 P E R S ON A L G R OU N DWO R K F O R C OAC H I N G How much of your focus and intentions are set around managing your time and results? What would change for you if you began to think about managing your energy FIRST and then designed your use of time and intention for results around that? Another way to think about this would be to think about having an energy budget each day. Let’s call the currency e-dollars for energy dollars. Imagine you only have one hundred energy dollars to use every day in your budget. How are you spending those now? Let’s take a look at a typical energy budget. This was a budget done for Liza who is a 36-year-old account manager for an advertising company. The circumstances may be different for each of us but it’s probably safe to say the deficit is the same or greater for most of us at the end of the day. It’s part of our culture to be poor financial managers of our e-dollars. It’s customary and accepted to have a deficit and it’s often rewarded with admiration and approval for being such a hard and dedicated worker! LIZA’S ENERGY BUDGET Wake up and get dressed – 5 e-dollars Get children dressed and off to school – 10 e-dollars Commute to the office – 5 e-dollars First meeting for the day – 15 e-dollars Catch up with emails and callbacks – 15 e-dollars Second meeting for the day – 25 e-dollars Phone call from school because daughter is sick and arranging someone to pick her up and get her home – 10 e-dollars Presentation to new client – 15 e-dollars Afternoon email catch up and returning phone calls – 10 e-dollars Commute home – 5 e-dollars Get dinner ready – 5 e-dollars Help kids with homework and get materials ready for them for the following day – 10 e-dollars Phone call from manipulative sister-in-law – 10 e-dollars Money shortage conversation with husband – 15 e-dollars Catch up on work brought home – 15 e-dollars Get ready for bed – 5 e-dollars Remembering email I forgot to send just I was falling asleep – 10 e-dollars TOTAL 195 e-dollars Deficit -95 e-dollars
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