Sustained high achievement requires not just a sharp intellect but also physical strength, emotional intelligence and a strong sense of life purpose.
Change only happens when it's powered by motivational energy from your assumptions/beliefs, values, guiding principles and vision.
Personal coaching can help one refine these intangible "identity" components and build them into one's life through highly specific, regularly scheduled practices that become automatic over time (these are called rituals).
Strategic planning and rituals (physical, emotional, mental or spiritual) can unleash energy by tapping into one's deepest beliefs and values.
Without being in attunement/alignment with our life purpose, we're usually "pulled" to behaviors that align with our values rather than "pushed" forward by internal motivational energy toward what we should be doing.
Everyone has a supply of energy. The key to success is how you generate, conserve, balance and apply your energy to achieve the results that get you where you want to be.
Most of us respond to workplace demands by putting in longer hours. But nothing positive comes from expending extra time without devoting high-quality, focused energy. High performance requires you to manage energy--not time--well.
In The Power of Full Engagement (2003), authors Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz assert we need to learn two new rules:
1. Energy is the fundamental currency of high performance.
2. Performance, health and happiness are grounded in skillfully managing your energy.