Bill's Brain Blog
Personal Energy Levels
Your Personal Energy level is key to accomplishing your goals in life. This energy flows and has peaks and valleys like waves during you day. Recharging in your valleys and timing uninterrupted focus during you peaks helps you to maximize your performance from you personal energy.
Types of Personal Energy
- Physical
- Emotional
- Mental
- Spiritual
James - Police Officier
I had a short fuse both at home and at work.
Builders
- Sleep
- Nutrition
- Exercise
Reducers
- Poor Nutrition
- Poor Rest (including Sleep)
Behavior
- Adequate Sleep
- Exercise – Rhythmic activities like walking, jogging, cycling . . .
- Track activity
Nutrition
App
Nancy - Veteran
"For years I would wake up with night terrors thinking I was living it again and it would take a week to recover. Then I would wake up and realize it was a bad dream and it would take a day to recover. Now, less than a year later, I am going to Europe for a month just to explore because I can."
Builders
- Time with people we care about
- Social
- Work
- Appreciation for work well done
- Show
- Receive
- Addressing Stressful situations
- Differently
- More Positive perspective
Reducers
- Negative Emotions
- Depressive Thoughts
- Nervousness
- Impatience
- Anxiousness
- Time on Toxic Relationships
Behavior
SleepCoacher App
- Yoga
- Cardio
- Weight Training
- Test known factors to determine how you respond
Mental Energy
is responsible for our ability to maintain high level of focus for a long period of time, think rationally and make decisions.
Authors often find higher mental energy in the moning
Most common deflators of our mental energy today are distractions that come from technology or coworkers. Same goes for our multitasking efforts, which are connected with decreased efficiency and increased number of errors.
To prevent depletion, we should prioritize our most important tasks and make time for them when we know we won’t be interrupted.
Builders
- Prioritization
- Organization (?)
- Scheduling important tasks when we are not interrupted
Reducers
- Distactors
- Technology
- People
- Multitasking
- Deceased overall efficiency
- Delayed item completion
- Increased error rate
Spiritual Energy
is fueled by our sense of meaning and purpose.
There is a saying that if you love what do you do, you won’t have to work for a day in your life. And that is true. Our sense of purpose and belief in the value of what we are doing can keep us going longer than any energy drink.
We should all try to identify what we do best and enjoy most, allocate our time and energy to the area of our lives that we deem most important, and incorporate our core values into our everyday behavior.
Builders
- Meditation
- Visualization - white light into crown through and around back to head. deep breaths
- breath in white light going to every cell in body. out blackness from within
- Contact nature
- vitamins -rainbow fruits & vegetables
- Magnesium
- Crystals - store on good days
- Sea Salt bath
- Yoga - intune with creation
- Exercise - clears toxins
- Take Total Break
Reducers
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- Toxins
- Stress lowers vibration
- Viruses
- Other People's negative energy
General
The mothers body is where conception and development occur and is where much of our
Measures
- Memory
- Focus
- Attention span
- Creativity
Nutrition
- Identify top 10 nutrient deficiencies in American diet
- Identify which apply to you
- Choose how to eliminate them
Probably will take more work and thought than you anticipate. The benefit is in the process as much as in the final result.
Our brains are the master control center so performance is impacted by shortages in key ingredients that affect all systems including points beyond the nervous system.
Nutrition
- Identify top 10 nutrient deficiencies in American diet
- Identify which apply to you
- Choose how to eliminate them
Probably will take more work and thought than you anticipate. The benefit is in the process as much as in the final result.
Our brains are the master control center so performance is impacted by shortages in key ingredients that affect all systems.
Measures
- Memory
- Focus
- Chinese Herbs