The Power of Full Engagement Quotes

“PRINCIPLE 3: To build capacity, we must push beyond our normal limits, training in the same systematic way that elite athletes do.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Sprinters typically look powerful, bursting with energy and eager to push themselves to their limits. The explanation is simple. No matter how intense the demand they face, the finish line is clearly visible 100 or 200 meters down the track. We, too, must learn to live our own lives as a series of sprints—fully engaging for periods of time, and then fully disengaging and seeking renewal before jumping back into the fray to face whatever challenges confront us.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Mental endurance is a measure of the ability to sustain focus and concentration over time, while mental flexibility is marked by the capacity to move between the rational and the intuitive and to embrace multiple points of view. Spiritual strength is reflected in the commitment to one’s deepest values, regardless of circumstance and even when adhering to them involves personal sacrifice. Spiritual flexibility, by contrast, reflects the tolerance for values and beliefs that are different than one’s own, so long as those values and beliefs don’t bring harm to others.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Emotional flexibility reflects the capacity to move freely and appropriately along a wide spectrum of emotions rather than responding rigidly or defensively. Emotional resilience is the ability to bounce back from experiences of disappointment, frustration and even loss.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“The primary markers of physical capacity are strength, endurance, flexibility and resilience.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Because energy capacity diminishes both with overuse and with underuse, we must balance energy expenditure with intermittent energy renewal.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“At a practical level, they build very precise routines for managing energy in all spheres of their lives—eating and sleeping; working out and resting; summoning the appropriate emotions; mentally preparing and staying focused; and connecting regularly to the mission they have set for themselves. Although most of us spend little or no time systematically training in any of these dimensions, we are expected to perform at our best for eight, ten and even twelve hours a day.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“We focused instead on helping them to manage their energy more effectively in the service of whatever mission they were on.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“if you find talented people and equip them with the right skills for the challenge at hand, they will perform at their best. In our experience that often isn’t so. Energy is the X factor that makes it possible to fully ignite”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“THE POWER OF FULL ENGAGEMENT Old Paradigm New Paradigm Manage time Manage energy Avoid stress Seek stress Life is a marathon Life is a series of sprints Downtime is wasted time Downtime is productive time Rewards fuel performance Self-discipline rules Purpose fuels performance Rituals rule”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“The skillful management of energy, individually and organizationally, makes possible something that we call full engagement. To be fully engaged, we must be physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused and spiritually aligned with a purpose beyond our immediate self-interest.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Leaders are the stewards of organizational energy”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“As a leader and a manager, how valuable would it be to bring more positive energy and passion to the workplace?”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“The more we blame others or external circumstances, the more negative and compromised our energy is likely to be.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Chronological age is fixed. Biological age can be modified with training.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Take Proverbs 16:32, for example: ‘He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he who rules his spirit is better than he who takes a city.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Jump ahead to the end of your life. What are the three most important lessons you have learned and why are they so critical? • Think of someone that you deeply respect. Describe three qualities in this person that you most admire. • Who are you at your best? • What one-sentence inscription would you like to see on your tombstone that would capture who you really were in your life?”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Purpose also becomes a more powerful source of energy when it moves from being externally to internally motivated. Extrinsic motivation reflects the desire to get more of something that we don’t feel we have enough of: money, approval, social standing, power or even love. “Intrinsic” motivation grows out of the desire to engage in an activity because we value it for the inherent satisfaction it provides.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Unpleasant facts don’t go away simply because we stop paying conscious attention to them.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“We are machine-centered in our thinking—focused on the optimization of technology and equipment—rather than human-centered—focused on the optimization of human alertness and performance.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Because the rest of us are evaluated more by what we do with our minds than with our bodies, we tend to discount the role that physical energy plays in performance. In most jobs, the physical body has been completely cut off from the performance equation. In reality, physical energy is the fundamental source of fuel, even if our work is almost completely sedentary.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“During those 41/2 hours of focused morning work, Peter was able to write nearly twice as much as had sitting at his desk for up to ten hours a day in previous years.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“Overwork is this decade’s cocaine, the problem without a name,” says Bryan Robinson, who has written widely about the phenomenon and estimates that as many as 25 percent of Americans have the addiction.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“The performance demands that most people face in their everyday work environments dwarf those of any professional athletes we have ever trained.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

“The benefits of a sustained fitness program decrease significantly after just one week of inactivity—and disappear altogether in as few as four weeks.”
― Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal