Energize

In a week of family milestones — and at a time where the year-end break feels distant while flu season looms — I’m encouraging a conscious effort to track energy.

Not productivity.
Not busyness.
Energy.

Energy is subjective and notoriously hard to measure. It spans physical, mental, emotional, and relational dimensions. Yet it quietly shapes how teams perform, how cultures form, how leaders lead, and how people engage at work.

The First Law of Thermodynamics tells us something interesting: energy cannot be created or destroyed — only transformed.

So here’s a simple starter for 10 this week:

👉 For every key decision and action you and your team take, ask a binary question:
Does this boost energy, or does it drain it?

And rather than viewing this through the eyes of the leader, try seeing it through the perspective of each team member. We often talk about leadership energy, but it’s the everyday dynamics of the team that compound — positively or negatively.  In my view, we place too much emphasis on leaders and not enough on the lived energy of the team and its dynamics.

Try asking yourself — and your team:
• What energises me / us?
• What drains me / us?
• And most importantly: what is my role in each?

Write the answers down. They form a useful benchmark for energy levels as we begin 2026.

A final personal question to you:
What’s one thing in your working week that consistently drains energy — and what would change if you stopped tolerating it?

If you’d like support turning these reflections into practical energy routines for your team, I’d be glad to work with you — just message me.

Wishing you a high-energy week.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.
— Paulo Coelho