Fighting Fear? Raise Your Energy

If the “High Performance Six” covers clarity, energy, necessity, productivity, influence, and courage. Yesterday, I asked Jason which of those he wanted to focus on, he said “Productivity.” Great. Most basic principle for his productivity? “Do the work and turn it in.”

Excellent. But one interesting thing about the HP6 is the notion that they are inter-connected, and that increasing any of them, once the pattern is established, raises all of them. My general approach would be to focus on the weakest and then pump up your strongest, or starting with your strongest and then pumping up your weakest. For instance, the simplest thing you can do to enhance excellence overall, for most people, is raising their physical fitness, the physiological platform of energy. There are four basic aspects that relate to energy: Diet, exercise, rest, and motivation (“necessity”). Ah! A bit of connection! That means all I have to do to increase energy is increase the urgency of action, or the importance of completing the task.

There are SO many reasons raising energy kicks butt, but one of them comes back to one of the earliest principles I learned. It was actually in a book about improving finances, in a book given to me decades ago by my dear friend Marty Brastow. It talked about changing habits, and how difficult that is but how essential to self-growth. The book (whose name I no longer remember) described a pattern of Behavioral Modification that I’ve since verified by personal experimentation and research.