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What happens to your goals when your energy disappears?
As a coach, I have told people for years that your body is your first business.
Before the career. Before the money. Before the goals. Before everything you are trying to build.
Because everything you want to accomplish requires energy.
Energy is everything.
We sometimes treat our health like it is separate from success. We sacrifice sleep to get more done. We skip movement because we are too busy. We eat poorly because it is convenient. We ignore recovery because we believe slowing down will put us behind.
But eventually the bill comes due.
Your ability to think, focus, create, communicate, lead, and perform is connected to the energy you bring into each moment. When your physical energy declines, your mental energy eventually follows. When your mental energy suffers, your actions and results usually follow with it.
This is why taking care of yourself is not selfish. It is responsibility.
Move your body. Feed it well. Give it recovery. Challenge it enough to grow. Respect it enough to listen when it needs rest.
You do not need perfection. You need consistency.
Your health is not something you work on after you become successful. It is part of the system that allows you to become successful.
Take care of the vehicle carrying you toward your potential.
You only get one.
If this message spoke to you or something within it resonated, I invite you to check out my other ideas in my books sold on Amazon. They have already helped thousands worldwide.
– Coach Mike
EDIT Your GOALS
Every
Day
Internal
Thoughts
Guarantee
Our
Absolute
Life
Situations
#energy #give #life #protect #source
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Sara Ruffoni
As a coach, I have told people for years that your body is your first business.
Before the career. Before the money. Before the goals. Before everything you are trying to build.
Because everything you want to accomplish requires energy.
Energy is everything.
We sometimes treat our health like it is separate from success. We sacrifice sleep to get more done. We skip movement because we are too busy. We eat poorly because it is convenient. We ignore recovery because we believe slowing down will put us behind.
But eventually the bill comes due.
Your ability to think, focus, create, communicate, lead, and perform is connected to the energy you bring into each moment. When your physical energy declines, your mental energy eventually follows. When your mental energy suffers, your actions and results usually follow with it.
This is why taking care of yourself is not selfish. It is responsibility.
Move your body. Feed it well. Give it recovery. Challenge it enough to grow. Respect it enough to listen when it needs rest.
You do not need perfection. You need consistency.
Your health is not something you work on after you become successful. It is part of the system that allows you to become successful.
Take care of the vehicle carrying you toward your potential.
You only get one.
If this message spoke to you or something within it resonated, I invite you to check out my other ideas in my books sold on Amazon. They have already helped thousands worldwide.
– Coach Mike
EDIT Your GOALS
Every
Day
Internal
Thoughts
Guarantee
Our
Absolute
Life
Situations
#energy #give #life #protect #source
Background Photo Credit:
Sara Ruffoni
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Does your circle inspire you or drain you?
I have learned that one of the most important choices you will ever make is deciding who gets access to your life.
We like to believe we can surround ourselves with anyone and their energy will not affect us. But it does. The conversations you have, the attitudes you listen to, and the behaviors you tolerate all influence your thoughts. Those thoughts create emotions, those emotions influence actions, and those actions eventually create results.
I see people who genuinely want to create an amazing life, yet they continually surround themselves with people who complain, judge, blame, and live as the victim of everything happening around them. They call it venting, but when venting becomes the same conversation every day without accountability or action, it becomes a pattern.
And patterns create energy.
You may believe you are helping someone by constantly absorbing their catabolic energy. But there comes a point when helping them starts hurting you. Compassion does not require unlimited access. You can care about someone and still create boundaries.
Become aware of how you feel after spending time with the people around you. Do you feel inspired, challenged, supported, and energized? Or do you leave feeling drained, frustrated, negative, and smaller?
Your circle does not have to be perfect. But it should not consistently pull you away from the person you are working to become.
Choose your circle intentionally.
Protect your energy.
And keep becoming more of who you truly are.
I invite you to check out my other ideas in my books sold on Amazon. They have already helped thousands worldwide.
– Coach Mike
EDIT Your GOALS
Every
Day
Internal
Thoughts
Guarantee
Our
Absolute
Life
Situations
#protect #energy #intention #circle #become
Background Photo Credit:
Unknown
I have learned that one of the most important choices you will ever make is deciding who gets access to your life.
We like to believe we can surround ourselves with anyone and their energy will not affect us. But it does. The conversations you have, the attitudes you listen to, and the behaviors you tolerate all influence your thoughts. Those thoughts create emotions, those emotions influence actions, and those actions eventually create results.
I see people who genuinely want to create an amazing life, yet they continually surround themselves with people who complain, judge, blame, and live as the victim of everything happening around them. They call it venting, but when venting becomes the same conversation every day without accountability or action, it becomes a pattern.
And patterns create energy.
You may believe you are helping someone by constantly absorbing their catabolic energy. But there comes a point when helping them starts hurting you. Compassion does not require unlimited access. You can care about someone and still create boundaries.
Become aware of how you feel after spending time with the people around you. Do you feel inspired, challenged, supported, and energized? Or do you leave feeling drained, frustrated, negative, and smaller?
Your circle does not have to be perfect. But it should not consistently pull you away from the person you are working to become.
Choose your circle intentionally.
Protect your energy.
And keep becoming more of who you truly are.
I invite you to check out my other ideas in my books sold on Amazon. They have already helped thousands worldwide.
– Coach Mike
EDIT Your GOALS
Every
Day
Internal
Thoughts
Guarantee
Our
Absolute
Life
Situations
#protect #energy #intention #circle #become
Background Photo Credit:
Unknown
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Are you always on?
I was. And I did not realize how mentally exhausting it had become.
Somewhere along the way, I had given everyone unlimited access to me. Every call felt like it needed answered. Every text needed a response. Every email deserved attention. I had conditioned myself to believe being available meant being dependable.
Eventually I realized I had lost something important.
Disconnection.
That space where nobody needs anything from you. Where there are no questions to answer, problems to solve, or expectations to meet. A place where your mind can simply be present.
What really created the imbalance was my expectation that others would give me the same access I gave them. But that was not their responsibility. It was mine. I created the expectation because I assumed people would respond the way I did.
They will not.
And that is okay.
But here was the bigger realization. I also needed to stop expecting myself to always be me.
I did not have to respond immediately. I did not have to treat every notification like an emergency. I could disconnect and the world would keep moving.
And it did.
The important things still got done. The people who truly needed me still had me. But I began protecting the space between everyone else’s needs and my own energy.
You do not owe everyone unlimited access to you.
Sometimes protecting your energy means disconnecting long enough to remember that you have a choice where it goes.
Your energy is valuable.
Spend it intentionally.
If this message spoke to you or something within it resonated, I invite you to check out my other ideas in my books sold on Amazon. They have already helped thousands worldwide.
– Coach Mike
EDIT Your GOALS
Every
Day
Internal
Thoughts
Guarantee
Our
Absolute
Life
Situations
#protect #energy #choose #access #available
Background Photo Credit:
Unknown
I was. And I did not realize how mentally exhausting it had become.
Somewhere along the way, I had given everyone unlimited access to me. Every call felt like it needed answered. Every text needed a response. Every email deserved attention. I had conditioned myself to believe being available meant being dependable.
Eventually I realized I had lost something important.
Disconnection.
That space where nobody needs anything from you. Where there are no questions to answer, problems to solve, or expectations to meet. A place where your mind can simply be present.
What really created the imbalance was my expectation that others would give me the same access I gave them. But that was not their responsibility. It was mine. I created the expectation because I assumed people would respond the way I did.
They will not.
And that is okay.
But here was the bigger realization. I also needed to stop expecting myself to always be me.
I did not have to respond immediately. I did not have to treat every notification like an emergency. I could disconnect and the world would keep moving.
And it did.
The important things still got done. The people who truly needed me still had me. But I began protecting the space between everyone else’s needs and my own energy.
You do not owe everyone unlimited access to you.
Sometimes protecting your energy means disconnecting long enough to remember that you have a choice where it goes.
Your energy is valuable.
Spend it intentionally.
If this message spoke to you or something within it resonated, I invite you to check out my other ideas in my books sold on Amazon. They have already helped thousands worldwide.
– Coach Mike
EDIT Your GOALS
Every
Day
Internal
Thoughts
Guarantee
Our
Absolute
Life
Situations
#protect #energy #choose #access #available
Background Photo Credit:
Unknown
