The Power of Total Commitment by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz – Book Review

I want to recommend you a book that will absolutely change your life. Always.

It doesn’t matter what’s holding you back: lack of enthusiasm, procrastination, lack of focus, low energy.

The book is The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz.

To get more done in your life, it’s not about managing your time, it’s about managing your energy.

That is very powerful. It’s not about time, it’s about you and your energy. And once you really understand the concept, it’s amazing what you can do.

There are four sources of energy: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. With each source, we must find a way to balance energy use and energy renewal. When any energy source is out of balance, we burn out and our performance suffers. We disconnect.

To change this, we must increase the capacity of each energy source beyond our normal limits, and then renew the source with a corresponding rest period. It is exactly the way we increase our physical strength. We work a muscle to exhaustion and then rest it. That push and rest is what strengthens the muscles. The rest period is key. But if we rest too much, our performance will also be affected. Just like an unused muscle can atrophy. It’s a good balance.

So how do we find that balance? We create positive energy rituals in our lives. Rituals are specific routines that we do without even thinking about them. We have hygiene rituals and festive rituals. Most of us have rituals that our parents instilled in us. Some of these rituals may or may not be serving us well now. We can create new rituals and the authors teach us exactly how to do it.

The Power of Full Engagement will teach you how to manage your energy to achieve the highest performance of your life.