Manage your energy spheres

You are your energy. Your energy is a precious asset that is too important to waste.

Hunt for Greatness

Milton Kamwendo

Everything you do is an energy transfer transaction.

Everything you have achieved is your return on energy. Energy spheres are spaces or pockets that either fill up or drain your power. They enable you to refill or drain your energy.

Your energy supply is limited, while the things that demand your power are limitless. To achieve greatness, you need to be mindful of the energy spheres you enter or leave and how they affect your power levels. How you spend your energy reflects your wisdom.

Being intentional about the energy spheres you enter is a key to the momentum you generate.

Be aware

Identify your energy spheres and how they affect your power bank.

Before you can make any value distinctions on how to manage your energy spheres, you must first identify and priorities them.

If everything is important, you have no priorities. If you can still afford to be everywhere, you lack experience.

Assess the energy content, positive or negative, in your power spheres.

Assess how the spheres respond to the content of your conversations, contacts, context and communications around you. Deploy your energy resources mindfully and carefully in whatever energy sphere you enter. Do not let your life waste away by entering and remaining in toxic energy spheres.

If you walk into a toxic sphere, leave early. Do not stand helplessly by, hoping for change. Whatever you entertain will enter you. If you are standing in a rabid energy sphere, flee and do not keep standing like a victim.

If you are sitting on a toxic energy dump space, stand up, and walk out.

You do not afford the luxury of toxic negativity and harmful cynicism.

Do not waste away your life by squandering your energy on things that deplete your personal power, leaving you tired, stressed and jittery. Quit energy spheres that feed your fears, fuel worry, create misery and break your focus.

Flee energy spheres that leave you drained, depleted, disappointed and disillusioned. Shift to energy spheres that fuel you, inspire you and give you internal power and agency.

Be intentional

See yourself as an energy marshal. When, for instance, you are in a meeting and you observe that it is sliding into a negative power dump, change the agenda, transform the tempo and refocus the conversations.

Cancel the complaining diet and the grumbling mode.

Exit groups that deplete your energy. Stop following energy vampires.

Energy spaces are feeding troughs. Feed on fear and you become fearful, frustrated and faint-hearted.

Feed on faith and you become fired up, focused and free to dream and dare. Choose positive energy spheres to gain positive momentum and a push for greatness. A nourished energy sphere is a powerful ignition of greatness.

To move forward and do great things, deliberately spend more time in positive and nourishing energy spheres.

Feed and fuel your motivation.

Do not focus on frustrations, fissures and fantasies that rob you of your precious energy. Spend more time in inspiring and possibility-framing energy spheres that are filled with people who are doing things that matter.

Covet energy spaces where people share stories of progress, as well as triumph over adversity, and not just parcels of doom, gloom and woe.

Spend time on content that feeds and inspires you. Carry around Psalms and not Lamentations. Refuse to let anyone hold your hand and walk you into stinking energy spaces, where you can barely breathe or think creatively.

Be directional

Be obsessed with greatness. Direct your energy to pathways of greatness.

Every day, learn something that takes you forward. If you are the smartest person in the energy spaces you enter, change your location, look out for challenging mentors, tried teachers and courageous coaches.

Be on the lookout for people who strengthen your resolve to be great.

Love being around energy spheres that challenge your faith, stretch your imagination and power your mental muscles. Being around dry complainers is not a complement. Get around people who inspire, challenge and stretch you to be what you have never been.

Get closer to energy spheres with people who see the wonder around you with new eyes. Do not settle for crumbs of negativity when there is a wide table waiting for you. Do not make your boundary small, your horizon too near and your ceiling too low. Get prepared every day to reach for greatness.

Enter spheres that stretch you and spur your growth.

Be goal-oriented

Goals magnetise you into energy spaces. Your goals have been waiting for you to get up and get them. You decide in advance the energy spaces that align with your goals and values.

Every goal has magnetic power.

Set goals that are big, bold and bring to bear the best of your energy.

Nothing changes by just being talked about or complained about. Negative energy is not a creativity starter.

Imagining more sophisticated models of complaining is not innovation nor strategic thinking. Every challenge has many energy faces. Choose the one you want to animate and fuel your activities.

Stop complaining about things but use them as tools for greatness, stepping stones to wealth and minefields of opportunity. Stop thinking like a loser, talking like a loafer and looking for the easy way out to nowhere.

Change comes through positive and focused action. Reboot your goals and take personal responsibility.

Cancel all fascination with get-rich-quick schemes, charms and fellowships.

Fuel your goals, realign your life to the magnificent vision that you hold.

Be obsessed with going forward and not with standing still or retreating.

Stop regretting that you lost an opportunity and start creating the experiences you desire and dream of. Write your goals in big bold letters and announce to the world that you are entering an energy sphere filled with possibilities.

Focus daily on greatness like you never failed. Stop recounting your failures. Start reflecting on the future you are creating. The future is so big that it cannot fit into the limited past.

Do not let any episode of failure have the last word and close the chapters of your life. Enter energy spaces filled with books that inspire greatness and noble thoughts.

Committed to your greatness.

Milton Kamwendo is a leading international transformational and motivational speaker, author and a virtual, hybrid and in-person workshop facilitator. He can be reached at: [email protected]