Coaching practices for The Energy Audit When Overwhelmed

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  • There’s a low-grade resentment and worry I carry around all day, and by evening I’m wiped out even though I didn’t physically do much
  • I know I’m running on empty but I genuinely can’t tell what kind of empty — is it my body, my mood, my focus, or that I’ve lost the thread of why any of this matters?
  • I have this vague sense I’m running low but I couldn’t tell you on what
  • I keep trying to think and discipline my way out of feeling reactive and foggy, and it never works
  • I’m about to make a big call about my life from a totally drained place

Practices that may help

  1. The Energy Audit
    Loehr and Schwartz argue that high performance is fundamentally an energy management problem, not a time management problem: you have four energy reservoirs — physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual — and sustained performance requires both spending and renewing each. The framework is a compelling clinical synthesis; direct RCT evidence for the four-quadrant model itself is limited.
  2. Identify and shift emotional energy drains
    Chronic negative emotions are not just unpleasant — they are metabolic and cognitive loads that drain performance capacity.
    The Energy Audit
  3. 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
  4. Audit your current resource base
    Take stock of where you stand in each resource category — objects, conditions, characteristics, and energies — before the next stressor arrives.
    Conservation of Resources Theory, Made Practical
  5. 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
  6. Track your life gauges: work, play, love, health
    Monitor how full your "energy tanks" in four life domains are before making a major plan decision.
    Odyssey Plans: Designing Three Alternative Futures
  7. Recover and recharge after intense emotion
    After an emotional peak, deliberately allow recovery time — intense arousal depletes resources.
    The 90-Second Rule, Made Practical
  8. Build rhythmic oscillation between stress and recovery
    High performance is not sustained effort — it is deliberate alternation between full engagement and full recovery.
    The Energy Audit
  9. 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
  10. Build energy rituals that automate oscillation
    Small, precise routines at transition points remove the decision cost of shifting between engagement and recovery.
    The Energy Audit

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