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“As Aristotle said: “We are what we repeatedly do.” Or as the Dalai Lama put it more recently: “There isn’t anything that isn’t made easier through constant familiarity and training. Through training we can change; we can transform ourselves.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“We grow the aspects of our lives that we feed – with energy and engagement – and choke off those we deprive of fuel. Your life is what you agree to attend to.”
― Jim Loehr

“Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency of high performance.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Rituals also help us to create structure in our lives.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“To be fully engaged, we must be physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused and spiritually aligned with a purpose beyond our immediate self-interest.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“The simple, almost embarrassing reality is that we feel too busy to search for meaning.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Energy, Not Time, Is Our Most Precious Resource”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Gallup found that the key drivers of productivity for employees include whether they feel cared for by a supervisor or someone at work; whether they have received recognition or praise during the past seven days; and whether someone at work regularly encourages their development. Put another way, the ability to communicate consistently positive energy lies at the heart of effective management.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp.”
― Jim Loehr

“The most important organizational resource is energy.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“The more exacting the challenge, the more rigorous our rituals need to be.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“We live in a world that celebrates work and activity, ignores renewal and recovery, and fails to recognize that both are necessary for sustained high performance.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“It is a mark of courage to set aside self-interest in order to be of service to others or to a cause.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Stress is not the enemy in our lives. Paradoxically, it is the key to growth.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Drinking water, we have found, is perhaps the most undervalued source of physical energy renewal.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“We survive on too little sleep, wolf down fast foods on the run, fuel up with coffee and cool down with alcohol and sleeping pills. Faced with relentless demands at work, we become short-tempered and easily distracted. We return home from long days at work feeling exhausted and often experience our families not as a source of joy and renewal, but as one more demand in an already overburdened life.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“In his Treatise on Painting, da Vinci wrote, “It is a very good plan every now and then to go away and have a little relaxation. . . . When you come back to the work your judgment will be surer, since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose the power of judgment.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“• A dynamic relationship exists between physical, emotional, mental and spiritual energy. • Changes in any one dimension of energy affect all dimensions. 22. Energy capacities follow developmental lines. • First level of development is physical. • Second level of development is emotional/social. • Third level of development is cognitive/mental. • Fourth level of development is moral/spiritual.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“The more we take responsibility for the energy we bring to the world, the more empowered and productive we become. The more we blame others or external circumstances, the more negative and compromised our energy is likely to be.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“A growing body of research suggests that as little as 5 percent of our behaviors are consciously self-directed. We are creatures of habit and as much as 95 percent of what we do occurs automatically or in reaction to a demand or an anxiety.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“America is the only country in the world in which employees work more hours per week than the Japanese.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“So many people postpone joy until they have achieved.”
― Jim Loehr, The Only Way to Win: How Building Character Drives Higher Achievement and Greater Fulfillment in Business and Life

“Barriers to full engagement: Negative habits that block, distort, waste, diminish, deplete and contaminate stored energy.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“We tend to thrive when we see opportunities for growth, not when we are in defensive mode.”
― Jim Loehr, The Only Way to Win: How Building Character Drives Higher Achievement and Greater Fulfillment in Business and Life

“Golf is not as much fun without a scorecard. Tennis doesn’t work as well without it. Same for other sports. Somehow, though, we muddle through life without a scorecard, one that’s focused on character strengths, even though most people, if they reflected on it, would agree that in the game of life, these are what truly matter most.”
― Jim Loehr, The Only Way to Win: How Building Character Drives Higher Achievement and Greater Fulfillment in Business and Life

“The skillful management of energy, individually and organizationally, makes possible something that we call full engagement. To be fully engaged, we must be physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused and spiritually aligned with a purpose beyond our immediate self-interest.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Positive energy rituals—highly specific routines for managing energy—are the key to full engagement and sustained high performance.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Unpleasant facts don’t go away simply because we stop paying conscious attention to them.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“The benefits of a sustained fitness program decrease significantly after just one week of inactivity—and disappear altogether in as few as four weeks.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“And what’s the point of doing something just to do it?”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Story : Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life