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“You cannot live with intent if you don’t know what your own intentions are.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“If we build a tribe of like-minded people, we never have to be alone again. But it’s more than that; together, and I actually mean this, we can change the world.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“We are not that busy; we are just distracted.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“Ask yourself a simple question: “How do I wake up every morning?” By that, I mean, what do those first few moments of consciousness feel like?”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“You want to own your day, not let your day own you.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“The last words you should say to anyone at night—whether it’s your spouse, your children, your dog, your cat or yourself—are “I love you.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“When we feel the ground beneath our feet, the sun on our faces and the oxygen in our lungs, we experience the world around us and reconnect with nature.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“As I experimented with different food plans, I could tell that by removing sugar, increasing my intake of high-quality proteins and increasing fats, I just “felt” different.
I felt more engaged and energized and had greater clarity and resilience.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“As I like to say, you are not what you eat, you burn what you eat. At the end of the day, food is simply fuel for energy—and the more dynamic the fuel, the more energy we will have.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“Sugar and fat don’t occur together in nature. Food scientists combine them in processed foods, which override our systems and make us crave more.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“Eustress supports bio-resilience, offering constructive pressure that can ultimately boost your energy. Distress, or negative stress, does the opposite, leading to anxiety or an inability to perform, which lowers your energy.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“We must finally stop and ask, “Is this the life I want for myself?”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“You need to find the food choices that fit your lifestyle, because your food choices are your lifestyle.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“The human body is a miraculous instrument that instinctively knows what it needs. Unfortunately, the human ego often drives us not to listen.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“The amount of stress on the mind and body is known as allostatic load, of which we have different individual capacities for.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“Healthy does not mean the same thing for everyone and even on an individual basis..”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“By waking up 30 minutes earlier than usual, you can transform and energize your morning and your life.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“From the violence on TV to the over-stimulation from our phones, we are constantly fueled by fight-or-flight energy.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“As I experimented with different food plans, I could tell that by removing sugar, increasing my intake of high-quality proteins and increasing fats, I just “felt” different. I felt more engaged and energized and had greater clarity and resilience.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“Being a biohacker means optimizing yourself and being out in front of where “scientific consensus” is.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“Life often teaches us that what feels like a terrible outcome is often a set-up for something miraculous.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“For example, when we are eating better, we are less tired. When we are less tired, we drink more water and less coffee. When we drink more water, we have more energy. When we have more energy, we go to the gym. When we go to the gym, we eat better”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“You are not going on a diet—temporary, restrictive, reversible. You are adopting a new lifestyle—permanent, gradual, transformative.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“All the activity and exercise you can muster may help in accelerating the adaptation period by depleting your carbohydrate stores and ramping up your body’s shift to burning fat.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“At the end of the day, food is simply fuel for energy—and the more dynamic the fuel, the more energy we will have.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“The bottom line is fear makes us less resilient; it makes us more susceptible and more easily compromised.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“When used carefully, thoughtfully and in conjunction with an overall healthy lifestyle, nootropics can be effective at boosting feelings of well-being and energy, promoting resilience and helping ease feelings of stress and anxiety.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“Having more energy isn’t ultimately about having better supplements; it’s about becoming a better person.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“I decided to stop telling the stories where I was the victim and start telling the stories where I was the hero.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“When we talk about bio-individuality, we are saying that each of us is an individual combination of genetics, epigenetics, body sizes, genders, environmental consequences and biological profiles.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential