Takeaways: The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz

    The book emphasizes the fundamental concepts that help to be productive and fully engaged. It is a great self-development book that explains how to manage our mental and physical resources to become more productive and live in better harmony. Here are my quick lessons from this book.
  1. Managing energy, not time, is a key element to be a high performer and fully engaged with a task at hand. Our performance is based on the level of the energy we have. Every action requires a certain level of energy to perform. Maintaining the energy level efficiently provides positivity, productivity, and focus.
  2. Our energy level is not constant, maintain the appropriate renewal procedures to recharge it.
  3. Energy sources can be categorized into physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. They are the resources that provide us a healthy lifestyle, productivity, achievement, and improvement of the quality of our life. Take responsibility to recharge all those dimensions efficiently.
  4. Human beings have a natural harmonic rhythm for work and recovery. Hard work requires enough recovery. Things work in a cyclic process with ups and downs, so downtime is preparation and energizing oneself to climb the next peak on the way. 
  5. Doing positive rituals helps us to become a high performer.
  6. Quality nutrition, exercise, right sleeping habit, and periodic breaks in work are the fundamental physical resource of any activity of human beings.
  7. Optimism, visualization, positive in self-talk, and physical exercise improve our mental capacity and build a right mental capability like a physical one.
  8. Spirituality helps to become a better human being, helps to control our emotions and actions, develops a character of perseverance, courage, sincerity, integrity, and commitment, and gives us a higher purpose in our life. 
  9. Apply below practices to boost your energy, productivity, be more engaged, and to discover fulfillment in your life:
    • Define what matters most to you, then set a goal and have a purpose.
    • Have bigger goals like serving others, life-long learning, teaching people, etc.
    • Find out your best self and your values, in one line sentence.
    • Have a vision statement. 

   The book provides valuable lessons on productivity and self-development. I recommend reading this book.



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