Why is Harnessing Energy the Crux of Your Productivity

By John Allen Mollenhauer "JAM"; JAM is a Leading Performance Lifestyle® Coach
A Performance Lifestyle is where your daily lifestyle habits promote, high level function, health, happiness, the capacity to perform well, and be productive.
A High-Performance Lifestyle is one where all of the above is true, but you’ve got an edge, and that edge is the proactive cultivation of extra ordinary levels of energy when you need it most, providing mental clarity, and a higher level of energy for your body brain to recover and heal faster and be super sharp.

No amount of motivation, financial incentives, coffee, working out intensity, or workaholism can ever outpace energy debt, and fatigue, at least not for long; so, when it comes to human performance, your capacity to engage life fully without burning out and trading your health for success, harnessing your energy is the key to the kingdom.
Why is that true?
To answer that question, you would need to understand what energy is and what it means to “harness” it. So, let’s start there.
Harness—means to control or manage, and make use of (natural resources), especially to produce energy.
One might think of harnessing the energy of a horse, where the use of the “harness” is well known to control the horse, or the “horsepower” of a car, where that very definition is harnessing power is evident as you glide down the road in your Beemer.
But beyond the horse, or the car, are natural resources that were sourced, produced, and managed to give the horse, and the car the power and function they needed for the outcomes you want.

Well, my friends, it’s no different for you personally. You need to harness the natural resources that give your body the energy or power to function and perform well as a human being.
But to do that we need to break down the process of “harnessing” your life force energy even more.

There are three aspects of harnessing your life force energy.

• Source—make sure your body has the raw materials, like sunlight for starters.
• Produce—give your body the space and time to regenerate new energy.  
• Manage—this is a function of your lifestyle and understanding all the essential aspects of lifestyle that impact your energy and applying them effectively.

Enter the Performance Lifestyle®.
Human performance is largely influenced by how much energy the organism has to work with, so the common thread of all aspects of lifestyle is the harnessing—sourcing and producing and ultimately the management of energy.

And here’s the thing, you need to do that deliberately and proactively, and other than sleep, most of us are not used to doing this. We have very little experience being proactive about energy and its management; we tend to just take energy for granted, manage energy reactively, or talk about how much “mojo” we have until we don’t. And few health and human performance practitioners know much about energy or can’t advise you on it.

That’s one of the core reasons we started REGENUS CENTERS, to help people get proactive about the regeneration of energy, and accelerate healing, just like they may likely be about nutrition and fitness.  
Today, given the relentless demands we all faced on our energy to be productive, we need to pay attention to making sure that our body is functioning and performing well.

As I’ve talked about in prior articles, performance needs to be redefined as a lifestyle, and no longer confused with productivity, or as an outcome only. 

That said, harnessing energy at the core of a Performance Lifestyle is no doubt the key to productivity. Everything you do in your life and if you are going to do it well, depends on it.
  
About John Allen Mollenhauer “JAM”
As a leading Performance Lifestyle® Coach, JAM will help you unleash the full potential of your lifestyle to become a healthy, high-achieving person who thrives and fulfills your inspired dreams.
JAM started using science, technology, and lifestyle changes to optimize and enhance his mental and physical performance long before “biohacking” became popular. He founded REGENUS CENTER – Unlock Your Body’s Resilience – to “regenerate us” and bounce back from stress, pain, and fatigue, utilizing today’s leading recovery technologies.  

Today, he publishes The Rise of New Lifestyle©, a curated monthly guide that offers Coach Notes on the essentials of healthy and successful living. This includes reviews of leading optimal living books, never-before-assembled Insights, 30-day transformation courses on how to surpass the default, typical fitness and "generally" healthy lifestyles that may not be as healthy as they seem. The goal is to assist people in achieving optimal living and embracing the High-Performance Lifestyle.