Be You Emotion Coach

It’s a thing I’ve never really thought about, but somehow that idea blows my mind. I am a big fan of getting to know oneself, and I can only encourage you to self-study. I think it is mandatory if you want a life aligned with your true self; you have to know the truth about yourself, and that means connecting with your inner self and listening, then making decisions.
This observation must be constant since every day you are a different person; you are not the same as you were yesterday. So in discovering myself, I was focused mostly on sensations, thoughts, emotions… but I never focused on energy levels. And that is the idea I want to share today.

Let’s get to the final idea, which is simple: organizing yourself and your schedule in a way that takes advantage of your energy levels.

Depending on the moment of the day, by default, you will naturally feel you have more energy during the morning, whereas others are more like noon people, for example. You will also notice after lunch, you feel very energized or very sleepy. So the first step would be to observe your daily routine, noting when you generally feel alert and when you require quiet or need to push yourself.

I guess we all have routines in our lives: taking care of children, visits to family, spending time with friends, sports sessions, music lessons, or some courses, etc. Also at work, we have Monday meetings, client calls, project studies, quotations, and so on. In all those activities, you will love some, and others you will do just because you don’t have a choice. Even if you think you know which activities are your favorite, I invite you to do an inner review just after ending the activity itself. Check if you feel happy, energized, able to focus, drained, if you need a break to recenter… observe.

The idea is to use your energy levels and take advantage of them. So let’s say you are not a morning person and prefer calm activities, maybe responding to emails. Or maybe you’ve observed that after the Monday meeting, you feel very drained, and you would need something to “wake you up again.” If you’ve noticed client calls are invigorating for you, schedule them right after the meeting that almost put you to sleep and keep the number-crunching for another moment, maybe when you feel more focused.

Why do this? To take advantage of the periods of the day and activities. If you leave a meeting feeling lazy and then force yourself to do a quotation while you are not a numbers person, you will start it already exhausted. Your mind will be telling you it’s not interesting, you don’t feel like doing it, and it will take you three hours to complete it, just because you will have to push yourself and try to focus, leading to a hard time and ending up exhausted.

Instead, if you know on Tuesday you have a call with a collaborator you love to work with because she/he always has great ideas and you feel so empowered with that person around. You get out of there, you are in a good mood, so happy about the project, so motivated… you feel ready for the numbers. It’s something you still don’t like, but it has to be done. It’s a piece of cake; it will take you one hour, and then you will be happy to have it done. Actually, it took you one hour instead of three, and you truly are happy because you’ve done it, and it was not as terrible as you thought.

That’s the whole point of getting to know yourself, understanding your energy levels, when they are high, when they are down, and organizing yourself in a way that benefits you.