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Capturing The Wind: Generating Your Optimal Flow Of Energy

When my husband Bill and I began planning our move from Chicago to rural Kansas – as we made initial design and budget decisions for our almost-off-the-grid house – we realized that our biggest single investment we would in our wind turbine.

Now, more than two years later, we’re living in our new house and the wind tower is part of the landscape out of our north-facing windows. It is a beautiful structure, in a quintessentially human-made way.  Tall, straight, and geometric, it’s topped by three glistening white blades and a proud yellow tail perfectly poised to shift and catch the gentlest of prairie breezes.

Every morning I wake up, go into the baby’s room, draw the curtain and open the shade to check and see how fast the blades are spinning.  Will there be plenty of energy to meet all of our electric-powered desires? Or do we need to conserve our energy as we depend on our back-up source to meet our basic household needs?

This was a high energy morning, with the wind blowing through tall grass, rippling across the pond, and spinning through slender white blades high in the sky.

How’s your energy level?

Ours is a pretty high-tech windmill, it’s true. Nonetheless, turning wind into electricity is simple physics: Wind blows; tail shifts; blades turn; electricity hums.

If only we could improve our personal energy flow with a simple twist of the tail!  But, all too often we humans allow our habits, addictions, preferences, and unarticulated priorities to block the flow of energy in our lives.  We make choices about self-care, relationships and time-management that deplete rather than renew us.

Increasing your energy can be as easy as instituting a few new habits or as dramatic as a major lifestyle change.  Either way, the process begins with awareness. If you’d like to have more energy for your life and work, start by taking a moment to check in with yourself. Breathe deeply, get comfortable and complete the following four-part scan.

1. Check in with your body: In this moment, what is the character and level of your physical energy?

2. Check in with your mind: In this moment, what is the character and level of your intellectual energy?

3. Check in with your heart: In this moment, what is the character and level of your emotional energy?

4. Check in with your soul: In this moment, what is the character and level of your spiritual energy?

What did you learn? Is your energy flowing in just the way you’d like it – supporting your best life and your best work?  Is your energy in one or more areas too low?  Or is your energy too frenetic, making it difficult to focus and enjoy your work or time with your family?

Stress & Relaxation

Each of the different energy types (physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual) is like a muscle. Just as a body builder needs to take a day to rest and recover after working out a particular muscle group, we need to find a sustainable balance between exertion and recovery for each energy area.

Take physical energy, for instance.  In order to feel at my best physically, I need to exercise and stretch my body for at least an hour every day.  I also need to sleep 8 hours each night.  Effort and Recovery.  To stay spiritually connected, I need the rigor of daily meditation and the relaxation of a quiet walk in the hills. Exertion and Rest. To stay intellectually engaged I need the challenge of developing a new project at work and the opportunity to recover with a full day off at the end of the week. Stress and Relaxation.

I’ve drawn on my own experience and the work of other coaches and writers to develop the Energy Inventory below to help you identify ways to boost your energy in one or more areas. Go through the list below and check all of the statements that are true for you.

(Congratulations! Those are the ways in which you are cultivating your optimal flow of energy.) The remaining items give you some clues about what may be draining your energy. What you do with those clues is up to you.

The Energy Inventory

Physical Energy

1. □        I eat well, including at least 5 servings of fruit and vegetables daily.
2. □        I stretch my body every day.
3. □        I know and practice (at least once a day) some form of breathing exercise that             helps me tune into the strength and wisdom of my body.
4. □        I don’t smoke.
5. □        I drink no more than one caffeinated beverage each day.
6. □        I drink no more than 3 or 4 alcoholic beverages each week.
7. □        I exercise every day.
8. □        I watch no more than 3 hours of television each week.
9. □        I get at least 8 hours of sleep each night.
10. □        I have had a full physical within the last 12 months and have been to the dentist           within the last 6 months.
11. □        __________________________________________
12. □        __________________________________________

Intellectual Energy

1. □        I read for pleasure.
2. □        I regularly take it upon myself to learn something that has absolutely no relation           to my  work.
3. □        I know my net worth and am comfortable with the flow of money in my life.
4. □        I regularly engage in some type of professional development.
5. □        I have a mentor and a mentee.
6. □        I take at least one complete day off work every week and have set aside time             for my next vacation.
7. □        I set aside time during each workweek to reflect on my leadership, pausing to             consciously learn from my successes and failures.
8. □        I turn off my email and the Internet for several hours every day.
9. □        I have a place in my home or office where I can work uninterrupted whenever              I need to.
10. □        I have friends and colleagues who challenge my assumptions.
11. □        __________________________________________
12. □        __________________________________________

Emotional Energy

1. □        I have a best friend or a soul mate.
2. □        I have a circle of friends who meet my needs for sociability and companionship.
3. □        My friends and family accept me for who I am.
4. □        There is nothing unspoken between me and any member of my immediate                 family.
5. □        I do not have any habits I find unacceptable.
6. □        Everything about my home environment is just the way I want it to be.
7. □        Everything about my work environment is just the way I want it to be.
8. □        I have a coach, therapist, or spiritual director that I can call on in                                  times of transition.
9. □        I laugh several times each day.
10. □        I hug someone every day.
11. □        __________________________________________
12. □        __________________________________________

Spiritual Energy

1. □        I have reflected upon what “spiritual” means to me and have begun making     choices that deepen my spiritual life.
2. □        I set aside at least five minutes of quiet time every day for meditation, prayer or contemplation.
3. □        I have a daily gratitude practice.
4. □        I have a journal and use it.
5. □        I listen to music I love every day.
6. □        I notice and appreciate something about the natural world every day.
7. □        I spend time outdoors every day.
8. □        Upon awakening, I acknowledge the new day before I begin reviewing                         my to-do list.
9. □        I know my life purpose and can articulate my core values.
10. □        My work is meaningful to me.
11. □        __________________________________________
12. □        __________________________________________

Making the Energy Inventory your own

Of course, if there is anything I’ve listed here that does not feel right for you, based on your values and priorities, cross it off!  But resist crossing something off because it seems unachievable given the way you currently allocate your time.

I’ve left blank spaces in each energy area so that you can add your own ideas to the assessment. I had fun creating this list, and it’s helped me capture some energy that I’ve been missing in these last few weeks, as a longer-than-average Kansas winter hung on by its frosty toenails. My hope for you is that you will enjoy my list as a jumping off point to your list and that – like the yellow tail on our wind turbine – you will make whatever shifts necessary to generate a powerful and continuous flow of energy for your life and work.

About the Author

certified coach, and skilled teacher and facilitator, Julia Fabris McBride is dedicated to helping individuals and organizations know themselves deeply, and then use that knowledge to align actions with values, forge powerful connections, and do good work in the world.  Individual coaching clients include executive directors and key staff of nonprofit organizations, entrepreneurs, artists and writers, mothers and fathers, university professors, independent consultants, and volunteer leaders. Clients work with Julia to uncover their own answers to questions about personal and professional issues including leadership, career development, and work/life balance. Julia’s clients live in communities across the country, but they share a deep commitment to community service and creative expression.

Julia is an International Coach Federation Certified Coach and a graduate of Coach University.  She is a certified Body-Mind Life Coaching™ Specialist. http://www.coachjulia.com

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