#17 | Manage your energy, not your time: how to stay "vibrant" with Potentialife's Angus Ridgway

Angus Ridgway is back for a round 3 discussion on personal leadership. He and I use the summer break as a prompt to think about how to re-energize for a fulfilling second half of the year.

We focus on personal energy and the idea of "vibrancy". What do you radiate? Optimism? Possibility? Enthusiasm? Opportunity? Leaving "toxic positivity" to one side, we address:

• Our relationship to the volume of work and volume of effort required to deliver impact
• We talk about focus and the need to say "no" - not just to the things we don't want to do, but even to things we very much would like to do
• This relates to a shift from "FOMO" to "JOMO", developing a "joy" of missing out
• Energy management begs the question of "recovery", which we tackle on a micro (daily), meso (weekly), and macro (yearly) scale
• We distinguish the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual dimensions of increasing our energy levels
• We also distinguish todo- from "today"-lists because as David Allen puts it: "The mind is for having ideas, not holding them". The todo list is the holding device, the today list is the closed list of things to actually deliver. Today.

In our discussion we cite the work of Oliver Burkeman, David Allen and Caroline Webb, which is all highly recommended reading.