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Mike Carruthers:
Managing your time may be important, but managing your energy may be more important.

Jim Loehr:
It's really not the time that you spend with another person, it's the energy you bring with the time that you have.

Jim Loehr, co-author of the book The Power Of Full Engagement.

And if you want to be extraordinary, you have to recognize you must be fully engaged in that interaction. And if you are, what gets our full engagement tends to grow--relationships, things we care about. The things that don't get our energy or our partial energy tend to fade away.

So, when it comes to the truly important things in life we have to focus on one thing at a time and be completely engaged.

We pride ourselves on the ability to have 15 balls in the air. And we found in our work, anything that matters, the more you are balancing many things at once, it means that you're not fully engaged in anything. In a sense you're partially disengaged in everything. You're watching television as you're talking to someone on the phone. You can sense that that person is really not getting all the attention that they really want to have from you. It's almost like you're saying, "You're not important enough to get my full energy. I have too many other things that are important."

So, whether it's work or parenting or even something fun...

In anything that matters, the ability to be physically energized, emotionally connected in the right way, mentally focused- that's the most powerful an individual can be in any context.

You can link to Jim's web site from ours, somethingyoushouldknow.net. I'm Mike Carruthers and that's "Something You Should Know."