Are you leaking? Plug it!
Christine Kane has a great post on how to plug your energy leaks. No, she's not talking about airtight doors and double-paned windows, she's talk about personal energy leaks. Maybe it's best if I let her explain....
Part of creating an authentic, powerful, serene, present-moment life is actually practical. It has to do with your energy and your focus. You want your energy and focus to be in the present moment. The present moment is where you create. It’s where you visualize. It’s where you shift your thoughts. And it’s where you find gratitude. If you’re continually losing your focus and getting scattered, your energy might be shooting outward to other places and thoughts and things.
What exactly is an energy leak? Here's Christine again...
A leak or an energy drain is any incomplete task, to-do, idea, or memory that drains your energy - even a little bit - when you think of it, or when you see it.
So for example...
It might be the thank you note that you keep forgetting to write to someone because you don’t have the right note cards. It might be the pants in a heap on your closet floor because they need to be hemmed. It might be the phone call(s) you need to return to potential clients. It might be a honkin’ full email box.
Etc., etc. You get the idea. So how do you plug those leaks? Christine offers up a step-by-step system she uses. You can read it in detail on her blog, but the short version is...
1 - Get a partner who will cheer you on. Or meet with several people and plan to check-in with each other...
2 - Get a blank piece of paper and pen. Start a list of any items that come up that feel undone, incomplete, and leak-y...carry that piece of paper around with you for two days. Any time something nags at you, or drains your energy, put it on the list.
3 - When you feel that the list is complete for now, then re-write it so it looks nice.
4 - Start with the easiest things to do.
5 - As you go through the list, some things will start to feel harder, especially if you’ve included unresolved issues in your relationships or health. The momentum you’ve gained will help you get through these in surprising ways.
6 - Once you get clearer and more energetic as you complete items over a period of time, you’ll have less tolerance for things that take that kind of energy
7 - At some point you’ll start crossing things off your list before they ever make it on your list.
I've been almost drowning in leaks since I got back from Cambodia. I can name a dozen little niggling things that I need to take care of that have been occupying mental space and cluttering up my focus.
Time to plug those leaks, I think.
[via David Lorenzo at Career Intensity]
Brought to you by Curt Rosengren, Passion Catalyst TM
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