80 P E R S ON A L G R OU N DWO R K F O R C OAC H I N G • What are the important life events in your family’s future that you want to be present and healthy for? Once these questions have been answered (and perhaps a few more) it becomes easier to create a plan and stick to it because now you have connected it to something that is exceptionally important and meaningful for you. Let’s look at another common core-essential value and run through a few questions to connect things to it. If you have a core-essential value of freedom then being healthy, mobile, and fit would strongly contribute to and be necessary for your freedom. If that is so, then the following questions must be addressed: • What needs to be in good working order to remain mobile and fit to do the things you want to do?What are the things you want to be free to do as you age? And what needs to be well tended for that? • What does freedom look like to you at 40, 60 and 80 years old and what are you doing today to ensure that? Connecting our physical engine maintenance habits to what is most important to us and remaining connected to it is usually the only thing that will keep us doing it. Otherwise, we are sporadic or often completely negligent in our intentions. Our subject Liza was able to connect her physical engine maintenance efforts to her core-essential value of family after answering the questions above. Every day she looks at it and reconnects with why it’s important to her. This allowed her to incorporate 45 minutes each morning to exercising, something she hadn’t been able to do for years. This regular exercise really tuned Liza’s physical wellbeing up and ADDED 15 e-dollars to her daily energy budget. This brought Liza’s total aily energy budget up from 100 to 115 - a deficit of only 35 e-dollars now. But still there was more work for her to do. 3. REPLENISHMENT This is where energy management can become complicated and the area that is most often sacrificed. When we replenish ourselves it’s usually with things that may make us feel selfish or self-indulgent. These are the things we do for ourselves that we get lost in and lose track of time. They can also be the things that exclude others and are only for us. They take us away from obligation and responsibility and put us in timelessness and total freedom. They are far from the things we should do. They are the things we want to do but often feel guilty doing them.
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