Blog is by Erin Suess, Life and Career Coach. Many posts include information on self-improvement and personal development, career development and testing, happiness, goal setting and living your best life! For more information regarding my coaching services or about me please visit my website at: www.lifecoachingdesigns.com
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What Are Your Energy Drains?
Posted on February 18th, 2010 4 comments
In light of my upcoming webinar Take Back Your Energy taking place on February 27th, I decided to write more on the topic of energy and talk about some things that leave us feeling tired. So what exactly are energy drainers? They are the tasks, to-do’s, environments, people, situations and other things in our lives that zap our liveliness, deplete us and leave us feeling physically, mentally and emotionally exhausted. Energy drainers are the choices we make that redirect our attention and decrease our vitality. Your physical energy is affected by the way you manage it, your mental energy reflect those to-do’s stored within your mind, and emotionally energy is influenced by how we deal with our inner feelings.Do you have energy drainers in your life? The first step in restoring your vitality is to identify what is draining your energy. Once you have pinpointed these energy deficits you can then start to make changes and set boundaries that enlighten, restore and reenergize you. Below is a list of some common energy drainers. This list by all means is not comprehensive so please feel free to add other energy drainers you experience in your life.
• Cluttered work or home environment
• Not enough sleep
• Constant worry
• Take on too much
• Overbook or overscheduled yourself
• Little time for hobbies or other things you enjoy
• Lack of exercise
• Poor food choices
• Incomplete projects
• Failure to address problems or issues
• Allow issues to build up
• Failure to set clear boundaries
• Not allowing yourself to say “NO”
• Unorganized house
• Failure to clearly communicate your needs
• Stress at work
• Keeps a MENTAL to-do list
• A home environment that does not reflect who you areAgain the above list is only a sample of energy drainers. I challenge you to think about your own energy drains and ask yourself two questions: “What would be possible if I no longer was tolerating these drains in my life” AND “What am I currently doing to address my energy drains?”
If you would like to:
1) Learn to evaluate your energy
2) Eliminate energy drainers
3) Make yourself a top prioritythen please join me in a coaching session via webinar that I am hosting on February 27th. Everyone who attends will receive a free workbook with additional exercises following the presentation. Click here to sign up: http://www.lifecoachingdesigns.com/Workshops.html
4 responses to “What Are Your Energy Drains?”
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I manage a office of 7 ladies under the age of 24. I feel like i leave home to go to work and babysit all day. Two of the girl are complaining about the others about everything and they don’t see themselves as doing anything wrong. It’s ok for them to take a break and sit in the kitchen for 15-20 minutes but another can’t go ask another a question or a favor. Any advice on how to handle this
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Wow Carol-well I can certainly see how your situation can be an energy drain..I use to manage a team of people and I can tell you that by the end of some days I felt I had absolutely NO energy left. Do you manage these women directly? If so then I would probably do a few things: have an honest conversation with them and/or create a workshop on professionalism. I have noticed that some of the young professionals new to the workforce do not always act “appropriately” in a professional setting. The workshop may be educational for them, however, sometimes you have to be more direct in order to get your point across.
If you don’t manage them directly but just have to deal with it all day I would talk to a direct manager. You should not have to feel like that in a place where you spend so much of your time. Its obvious that either their behavior has not been addressed or they have failed to listen. You will probably be doing EVERYONE a favor by shedding some light on this subject. Hope that helps and good luck!! Take care.
Erin -
I agree with the “Make yourself a top priority” and then do what we want to do instead of what should we do.
Love our life, then we will be happier and richer.
Thanks for your sharing, coach. -
Thanks January for stopping by! Yes, doing what we WANT instead of what we feel we SHOULD is a big one…I agree life would be better doing more of what we WANT! Thanks again.
Coach Erin
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