Some Days You’re a Productivity Super Hero…Others You Feel Spent: How to optimally manage energy givers and thieves.

Let’s be real, we might really like what we do…maybe we even love it. But if we’re all being honest, we don’t love every second of every day. That’s part of being a business owner, and that’s fine. 

Some days we are on top of the world…and other days…not so much.

Productivity can dip on those “not so much” days and I even wrote about how to manage productivity on our worst days here. But what about generally managing the peaks and valleys in our productivity on a regular basis when it’s neither our best or worst day?

That’s where this energy categorization system comes into play. 

If you’ve been following me for a while, you already know that I believe that self-awareness is our greatest productivity tool and that is relevant here too because the things that are givers and those that are thieves will be different for everyone so this article is about:

1. Figuring out YOUR specific energy givers, neutrals, and thieves.

2. Leveraging the energy category system to optimize your productivity.

Sound good? Let’s get going!

More breakdowns below! 👇

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Wishing you much productivity!

- Jenae :)