Coaching practices for How to Find What Energizes You
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- On paper I’m good at my job, but certain parts of it leave me hollowed out even when I do them well
- I’m going through the motions on work I used to care about, and I’ve lost the thread of why it even matters
- I think I’m passionate about the things I’m supposed to want
- I keep trying to think and discipline my way out of feeling reactive and foggy, and it never works
- By the time I get to the people who matter I’ve got nothing left to give them
Practices that may help
- Identify your two working geniuses
Name the two of the six activities that consistently energize you, not just where you perform well.
The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni) - Use a purpose anchor to recharge spiritual energy
Reconnecting to your deepest "why" before demanding work regenerates the motivational fuel that tactics alone cannot replace.
The Energy Audit - Test passion with the energy-after test
Passion is revealed by what energizes you after doing it — not by what you aspire to love.
The Hedgehog Concept - Treat physical energy as the foundation of all other dimensions
Sleep, movement, and nutrition are not separate wellness items — they are the substrate that makes emotional, mental, and spiritual energy possible.
The Energy Audit - Build emotional energy rituals to buffer against daily depletion
Emotional energy is the quality of emotional availability you bring to work and relationships — and it is trainable through brief daily rituals.
Energy Management, Not Time Management - Run a four-quadrant energy audit
Map your current physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual energy levels honestly before intervening in any one dimension.
The Energy Audit - Wayfinding with a Good Time Journal
Track when you feel engaged and energized to find direction from data, not a sudden epiphany.
Designing Your Life, Made Practical - Manage all four energy dimensions: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual
Treat energy as the fundamental performance resource — not time, effort, or technique.
The Ideal Performance State, Made Practical - Connect to purpose (spiritual energy)
Anchor effort to values and meaning, the deepest and most renewable source of drive.
The Power of Full Engagement, Made Practical - Manage emotional energy
Cultivate positive emotional states deliberately, since they fuel performance and connection.
The Power of Full Engagement, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Energy Foundation
Treat energy as the fundamental performance resource — not time, effort, or technique.
Manage all four energy dimensions: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual
- How To Access Self Energy
Self energy — a core concept in Richard Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems — refers to the innate calm, curious, compassionate core that exists in every person beneath their reactive parts. IFS holds that healing happens through parts experiencing the presence of Self, not through willpower or technique. The "8 Cs" (calm, curiosity, clarity, compassion, confidence, courage, creativity, connectedness) describe its qualities. Evidence for IFS overall is growing but limited in controlled trials; Self energy overlaps with well-studied mindfulness and self-compassion constructs.
- Physical Emotional Mental Energy
Sleep, movement, and nutrition are not separate wellness items — they are the substrate that makes emotional, mental, and spiritual energy possible.
Treat physical energy as the foundation of all other dimensions
- Spiritual Energy Loehr Schwartz
Schwartz and Loehr’s "spiritual" energy is simply the motivational fuel of purpose — work feels effortful without it and effortless with it.
Connect daily tasks to purpose to sustain spiritual energy
- What Energizes Me At Work
Name the two of the six activities that consistently energize you, not just where you perform well.
Identify your two working geniuses
- Emotional Energy
Emotional energy is the quality of emotional availability you bring to work and relationships — and it is trainable through brief daily rituals.
Build emotional energy rituals to buffer against daily depletion
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