Optimizing for Energy and Controlling Emotions

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This chapter explores the concept of optimizing for energy instead of just time and the importance of controlling emotions. It discusses techniques and practices individuals use to reset themselves and improve productivity, such as taking deliberate rest breaks, doing pushups on yoga blocks, and practicing alternate nostril breathing.

Suneel Gupta shows how to find more joy and success every day by drawing from the wisdom of ancient Indian traditions.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The eight essential practices for daily success.

2) How to reset your energy in just five minutes.

3) Why you achieve more with only 85% of the effort.

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— ABOUT SUNEEL —

Suneel Gupta lost his Dharma and then found it again. He is the founding CEO of RISE and co-founder of the Gross National Happiness Center in the United States. As an author, a visiting scholar at Harvard Medical School, and host of a hit documentary series, Suneel studies the most extraordinary people on the planet to discover and share simple, actionable habits to lift our performance and deepen our daily sense of purpose. His work has been featured by major outlets including CNBC, TED, and the New York Times.

• Book: Everyday Dharma: 8 Essential Practices for Finding Success and Joy in Everything You Do

• Past Episode: 708: The 7 Steps to Winning Others’ Support with Suneel Gupta

• Website: SuneelGupta.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Tool: OmniFocus

• Experiment: Dartmouth Scar Experiment

• Book: The Bhagavad Gita translated by Eknath Easwaran

• Book: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

• Book: Be Here Now by Ram Dass

• Previous episode: 625: How to Be Happier, More Fulfilled, and More Effective Every Day with Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar

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