{"id":1089,"date":"2013-06-03T21:23:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T02:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driveconsulting.net\/blog\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2022-11-17T14:04:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T19:04:13","slug":"maintaining-drive-and-engagement-even-on-low-energy-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/driveconsulting.net\/blog\/?p=1089","title":{"rendered":"Maintaining Drive and Engagement Even on Low Energy Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>June 3, 2013 \u2013 While driving to a client meeting last week, I was struck with my low energy level that day.\u00a0 Not only that day \u2013 it seemed to me that I was in a low energy period for the entire week.\u00a0 I was about to chalk it up to \u201cjust one of those days\u201d and simply hope to squeak by and make it to the end of that day.\u00a0 Then I remembered a lesson my teacher, Professor H.I. Sober, often gives:\u00a0 There are times in our lives when no matter what we do we cannot help but succeed; Conversely, there are times when no matter what we do, nothing seems to go our way.\u00a0 Our task lies in understanding the time we’re living and not to fight against those times.<\/p>\n

We can understand Prof. Sober’s teaching as follows:\u00a0 The Universe has its ebbs and flows like the oceans’ high tides and low tides.\u00a0 Just as we cannot fight the high or low tides, we cannot fight those periods of time when energetically we are not at one with the Universe.\u00a0 Hegel, in his Reason in History, refers to this as the Weltgeist \u2013 the world spirit.\u00a0 World leaders of every generation are those individuals who instinctively realize the nature of the current Weltgeist and the direction it is moving as they lead in the same direction.\u00a0 Such leaders are essentially unstoppable until the tide shifts and the Weltgeist changes direction.<\/p>\n

The underlying concept is the recognition that there are some things we can control and some things we cannot.\u00a0 Sound familiar?\u00a0 We’ve discussed this many times in previous postings.\u00a0 Things happen in the world.\u00a0 Other people do things which impact us.\u00a0 We have little to no control over these things.\u00a0 The only thing over which we have consistent and total control is the choosing of our own responses to these external acts.<\/p>\n

Now, when we talk about not having control over external acts, and when we talk about the times when we cannot change the course of events, we are not advocating the victim’s apathetic, lethargic, reaction of allowing undesirable things to happen.\u00a0 There are always courses of action to consider which will allow us to persevere through challenging times and perhaps position ourselves to \u201chit the ground running\u201d when times change.\u00a0 Consider the recent economic recession.\u00a0 There were some who hunkered down and simply waited for the anticipated economic upswing. \u00a0 And there were others who proactively laid the foundation for future growth when more favorable external conditions would prevail.<\/p>\n

So how did I choose to respond to my low energy day while driving last week? \u00a0 I simply reset my goals for the day taking into account the lowered energy levels I was experiencing.\u00a0 I knew that energy levels would soon rise.\u00a0 I also knew that just giving up for the day was not an option which would serve me well in the long term.\u00a0 Long term goal setting tempered by short term reality checks. \u00a0 That is the recipe for increasing drive and engagement levels.<\/p>\n

Consider the Possibilities.<\/p>\n

Adam J. Krim
\n www.driveconsulting.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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