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by Lee Milteer

It seems that fatigue is ever-increasing, a more frequent experience and challenge. You start the week on Monday morning enthused, invigorated, optimistic, motivated to follow-through on goals, plans, to-do lists. But as the days progress, all that positive energy dissipates. Where does the energy go?

We are made of energy - mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually. The choices you make about spending your life energy have outcomes. Your life is financed by the resources you have available to you. You must be conscious of how you spend the energy you have. If you indiscriminately spend your life energy, you may burn out, you may be too tired to capitalize on the best opportunities as they come along.

Entrepreneurs and salespeople need to preserve time and energy for themselves. You need quality time to make quality decisions. Quality time to create, think, invent and plan, to develop sales, marketing and profit breakthroughs. Quality time to network and build relationships. Time is needed to collect and assimilate information. For education and self-renewal, rest, rejuvenation. Hobbies and fun. Family. These things cannot survive on your left-over time and energy!

Taking control of your time and more carefully spending your energy can be the single biggest step toward extraordinary success you will ever take.

How Much Do You Value Your Time And Energy?

As Dan Kennedy says in his NO B.S. TIME MANAGEMENT FOR ENTREPRENEURS book: “if you don’t know what your time is worth, you can’t expect the world to know either.”

The use or misuse or abuse by others of your time is the single most important factor affecting your life energy.One of the clients I’ve worked with a lot, on personal performance, is NASA - but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the time and energy you permit others to take is then unavailable to you.

The question to keep front and center is: how can I best use my resources of time and energy to manifest what I want?

Most people let time and energy get away, let other people and circumstances control them.Dan’s NO B.S. TIME book is about doing the opposite. You exercise control to manifest your desires by creating boundaries and having a personal time plan that you live by. Focus on developing and sticking with habits that support your plan.

The Power Of Quiet, Personal Time

“All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone,” the famous scientist Blaise Pascal observed.In our noisy world, we are bombarded by sound, by loud music, sirens, construction, others’ conversations. When we enter a room, we habitually turn on the television, radio, computer.Many people preserve no quiet time whatsoever in each day, even each week.

Spiritual teachers tend to agree that we need to go into silence for wisdom. When you can visit the silent spaces of your mind and turn off the external noise, you are most likely to discover new possibilities and opportunities, new and different solutions to nagging problems. Quiet time can recharge your life energy. I urge you to demand more silence in your life. I urge you to create, to schedule quiet times.

Are you a human being - or a human doing?Our lives have become endless work, non-stop activity. This kind of non-stop ‘doing’ wears you down and wears you out.I advise my coaching clients to radically change their schedules and set aside one out of every seven days when they do not answer the phone, they do not do business, they make up a day of relaxation, recreation, quiet time, and time with family.This is not a new idea. There is the tradition of the Sabbath, one day a week set aside as holy, for rest, rehabilitation, prayer, meditation, thought and family, not work. This has been lost to many today. People who used to rest on Saturday or Sunday now spend those days shopping, working around the house, paying bills and conducting business. Don’t you think you deserve one day of real rest each week?

One of my coaching clients, Kelly, said that when he went back to the old-fashioned tradition of taking Sundays off, he saw immediate improvement in his clarity, enthusiasm, energy and ability to be of service to his clients. Kelly is a real estate agent and it was unheard of in his company not to work on Sundays. His boss told him he’d never make a living not working weekends. Kelly started explaining to his clients that he wanted to give them the best possible service, and preserving Sundays for his family and God helped him do that. He attracted clients who respected his beliefs. He soon started his own company, and now includes the fact that Sundays are preserved for family life in his advertising. His agents are grateful for the day with their families. His company is one of the top brokerages in his city.In his TIME book, Dan insists that you can train your clients to respect your time and to do business on your terms, I wholeheartedly agree, and the experiences of my coaching clients like Kelly prove it to be true.

Any time is a good time to reconsider your personal time plan!Remember, the question to keep front and center is: how can I best use my resources of time and energy to manifest what I want?

About The Author:Lee Milteer is an author, speaker and performance coach to entrepreneurs, business owners and executives. Her corporate clients have included top companies like FedEx and Disney. Her tele-coaching programs are subscribed to by thousands of business owners, and provided to thousands of business owners by their marketing advisors. This article was drawn from her forthcoming, new book Spiritual Power Tools For Successful Selling. Her other book is Success Is An Inside Job. Information is at www.milteer.com.Dan Kennedy’s book mentioned in this article, NO B.S. TIME MANAGEMENT FOR ENTREPRENEURS, is available in bookstores or from online booksellers. Additional information and free chapter previews at www.nobsbooks.com.