As a personal trainer, I find people at parties asking for advice from time to time. What gyms are good, how to I improve at this or that, how do I lose the tummy?! That’s the classic question. I do find a lot of people get to a certain point and reduce things to “I don’t have the time”, or “I’m too stressed to find more time in my day” or some such. It’s almost a litany, and living in Manhattan, it’s very understandable.
Many people find themselves still at work when it’s 7pm or 8pm at night.
That’s why this article Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time really struck a chord. It’s by Steve Wanner a partner at Ernst & Young. With four kids and a wife at home, he found himself working long hours, not having enough time for family, feeling guilty and generally unsatisfied. It’s a familiar feeling to many of us. But he managed to turn it around by changing his routine, cutting out the drinking, waking up and exercising, and taking ample breaks during the day.
He turned things around quite dramatically, a very interesting read.