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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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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 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

“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

“the energy of the human spirit can override even severe limitations of physical energy”
― Jim Loehr

“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

“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

“Stress is not the enemy in our lives. Paradoxically, it is the key to growth. In order to build strength in a muscle we must systematically stress it, expending energy beyond normal levels. Doing so literally causes microscopic tears in the muscle fibers. At the end of a training session, functional capacity is diminished. But give the muscle twenty-four to forty-eight hours to recover and it grows stronger and better able to handle the next stimulus.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“The primary markers of physical capacity are strength, endurance, flexibility and resilience.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“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

“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

“Character is best thought of as existing in two distinct but related categories of competency – performance character competency and moral character competency. Performance character consists of specific acquired strengths usually necessary for high achievement and performance: focus, persistence, resilience, confidence, positivity, decisiveness, courage, tough-mindedness, ambition, reliability, discipline, fortitude.”
― Jim Loehr, Leading with Character: 10 Minutes a Day to a Brilliant Legacy Set

“relying on junk food for bursts of energy; smoking or drinking to manage anxiety; furiously multitasking to meet demands; setting aside more challenging, long-term projects in favor of what feels immediately pressing and easier to accomplish, and devoting little energy to personal relationships. The costs of these choices and many others only show up over time.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal