Surprisingly, we are in March. Sometimes I tend to imagine if there’s a hidden ghost going after our time.

It’s still 24hrs a day but I guess that someone feels as tired as I do after work each day and keeps thinking that the way forward is to do more work.

Well, more work will not really make the deal better. Managing your time will but managing your energy is the most optimum.

Have you discovered that you have the best time to read and do certain work like writing? And if you alter that moment, it’s always difficult to do that same work with accuracy while maintaining your inner stability.

This is one reason why managing your energy will give you more productivity than just managing your time.

Leaving off here will not be fruitful. So I’d share few things you can do to manage your energy.

Physical Energy

Focus here is your physical body and how you take care of it. So how can you hit your physical energy?

• Sleep earlier
• Do exercises at least three times a week.
• Take little sized meals at regular time intervals for energy boost.
• Learn to take breaks too during work.

Emotional Energy

“When people are able to take more control of their emotions,” says Tony Schwartz and Catherine McCarthy, “they can improve the quality of their energy, regardless of the external pressures they’re facing.”

How can I do this?

• Use deep abdominal breathing to relax your mind from time to time.
• Learn to appreciate others in little things. It’s known to boost both the feel of the recipient and donor.
• Don’t be in a hurry to act swiftly when negative situations arise. Try to see things from different perspectives.

Mental Energy

How much can you focus on tasks without being interrupted? Do you find multitasking a good work mode?Try this techniques to help you stay more focused:

• Do your high mental work away from your phones or other devices to wade off interruption.
• Set out a specific time of the day to respond to messages.
• Learn to do the most important work first, when you arrive the office.

Spiritual Energy

What’s your inner purpose? What are your values? Do you find time to connect with them or do you just work and work and work yourself to any direction?

Connecting with your spiritual energy makes you come alive again and again.

• Make use of your sweet spot. Find it and make sure you get in contact with it. If there is an activity you don’t like and can delegate it, fine.
• Block time to connect to the most important things in your life. It can be family time or prayer time or meditation time.
• Let your core values direct your life daily.

Taking your energy and monitoring how you expend it will give you an edge, not just in the work place but you will be fit to go home and still have good time and energy for those you left at home.