Bags of Energy Now: 30 Minute Reads: A Shortcut to Feeling More Alert and Finding More Oomph

By Nicholas Bate

You’re half an hour away from the new energized you!

Why not use your next spare half an hour to skill-up? Each of these short e-books can be read in just 30 minutes. Addressing those painful work problems, and giving practical tools and expert advice to overcome them, the 30 Minute Reads series will make your work-life more productive, less painful and more successful!

If you feel like you are only ever running on empty, and long to be switched on, enthusiastic, engaged and energized every day, this succinct, practical guide will help you blow away the cobwebs, learn how to look after yourself, get your problems into perspective and focus your mind.

Also available in a digital bundle with 4 other titles as part of 30 Minute Reads: The business skills collection.

Bags of Energy Now will help you:

• Identify the problem and what isn’t working
• Discover the 10 Big Strategies
• Put in place your super-structured, super-easy, 5-day count-down plan to no more pain.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wiley
• Release date: Dec 11, 2014
• ISBN: 9780857085153

Nicholas Bate

Nicholas Bate runs Strategic Edge Ltd, a consultancy that enables individuals to realise and release their full potential. He works extensively with individuals and teams in organisations as similar and different as Microsoft, Marks & Spencer, Philips Electronics and Hudson Global, Intel, as well as many non-corporate organisations.

Book preview

What will this book do for you?

Energy. If you are reading this you would probably like some more. Perhaps to be able to stay fully alert in all those meetings, to feel like going to the gym at lunchtime, or simply to just do something with your evenings. What happened? Once, when you were a toddler, nothing could stop you! Then, as a child playing 5-a-side every lunch time and even as a teenager who could skip a night's sleep with no real downside. But now … now you seem on autocue and survival mode a lot of the time, clutching your latte to go: the buzz has gone.

Most of us would probably distinguish two kinds of personal energy. There's the mental kind: that's feeling like doing something, hav­ing the willpower to make it happen. You've just come back from a fantastic vacation feeling pretty well-rested and had planned to go for a swim most lunchtimes but somehow a spot of retail therapy seems more attractive: you lack the mental energy, the willpower to make the swimming happen. And there's the physical kind: that's the oomph in your muscles. So although you would actually really like to get out into the garden, as it is such a lovely summer's evening, and do a bit of watering and tidying up you are just so physically shattered from the long day at the office, you cannot get off the sofa: you lack the physical energy.

The two are strongly linked: the salesperson who closes a great deal (a wonderful mental boost) she has been chasing for months suddenly finds untold reserves of physical energy and decides to go hit the gym before going to celebrate at the pub. The person who takes a walk every lunchtime whatever their work load or the weather finds he has more drive to cope with poorly-run conference calls with head office in the US.

The goal of this book is help you have more energy. Energy for every day, for dealing with the kids and the team and the email, as well as energy for the other stuff such as your start-up plans and archery class. We will look at the two threads we have mentioned: physical energy, that is the stamina and the oomph we need for so many activities; and the mental energy, that is the focus, clarity and willpower.

Here's the structure of Bags of Energy Now

Section 1: Boosting Your Physical and Mental Energy. We'll introduce you to two simple approaches, one to boost physical energy and one to boost mental. Both are straightforward and easy to implement.

Section 2: Meditation: Relaxing Your Mind. Our first big idea – that we can keep stress at bay and hence we can reduce the impact of one of the biggest removers of our energy: anxiety.

Section 3: Exercise for Boundless Energy. This won't surprise you. You know that when you feel fit you feel you have boundless energy. But this section will show you