How Do You Replenish & Recharge Your Batteries?

You can’t dri­ve down the street, in almost any city in the world today, with­out see­ing an elec­tric car. And we know their bat­ter­ies need to be recharged so that they will take us where we want to go.

It’s a great metaphor for the impor­tance of recharg­ing our human bat­ter­ies on a reg­u­lar basis.

This isn’t just about get­ting enough sleep, eat­ing healthy or exer­cis­ing. It’s about recharg­ing your mind so that you can think clear­ly and see what’s pos­si­ble in the world, reen­er­giz­ing your body to be healthy and strong, and keep­ing your spir­it inspired.

A big part of the prac­ti­cal tools and resources in Your Oxy­gen Mask First (find overview and resources here and chap­ter videos here) – writ­ten to help high achiev­ers to thrive in lead­er­ship and in life – is the impor­tance of proac­tive­ly tak­ing care of your­self to become stronger and more resilient. Only when you’re at best in Work, Self and Life can you tran­scend the rigours of leadership.

Take some­thing like your phone. You can use it until it runs out of bat­ter­ies com­plete­ly, find some­where to recharge it, and then wait for it to work again.

Or you can reg­u­lar­ly recharge it by plug­ging in when you’re in the office, in the car, or on an aero­plane. With con­tin­u­al­ly recharges, it will nev­er be depleted.

The idea for us, then, is to recharge so con­sis­tent­ly and reg­u­lar­ly that we nev­er run out of juice and are always at our best.

We don’t have to wait until our bat­ter­ies are dead.

The Chal­lenge

• If your bat­ter­ies run at less than 100%, what can you do today, this week or this month to recharge?
• What can you elim­i­nate or deal with that puts a notable drain on your batteries?

Addi­tion­al Blogs

• Dou­ble Your Per­son­al Resilience
• Tak­ing a Men­tal Health Break
• Are You Get­ting Sev­en Kinds of Rest?

Lawrence & Co’s work focus­es on sus­tain­able and enhanced growth for you and your busi­ness. Our diverse and expe­ri­enced group of advi­sors can help your lead­ers and exec­u­tive teams stay com­pet­i­tive through the use of var­i­ous learn­ing tools includ­ing work­shops, webi­na­rs, exec­u­tive retreats, or one-to-one coaching.

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