Energy is Everything: How to Boost Your Energy Levels

[Music] Energy is everything. Energy equals progress. If your energy is super high, you will do things you will never do if your energy is low. You can be the smartest person in the world, have the best heart, and not follow through.

Here’s the challenge. We just spent years with COVID, where most people around the planet were cooped up in their houses, told they should never get within 6 feet of another person or people screamed at them. Which, by the way, there was no science for whatsoever. For you, you wouldn’t be here if that was you. But I’ll bet, without even being aware of it, your energy is lower than it was in 2019. For most of you, you wouldn’t even notice it because you know that silly metaphor they talk about: if you put a frog in boiling water, it jumps right out. We’ve all heard it, right? But if you turn it up slowly, it boils to death. That’s in essence what’s happened to our energy.

The Importance of High Energy

Now, how important is that? It sounds like a subtle thing. It’s subtle on the outside but it’s big in its results. Let’s take an example that’s easy: who do you want to work with in business? Somebody who, when a big problem happens, goes, “I don’t know, what should we do?” or somebody who goes, “Move, I’ll handle it!” It’s a different world. Someone has a different certainty, a different energy. That experience everyone can have, but when you’re low energy, it won’t show up even when you’re capable.

Energy in Relationships

Let’s take an example of a relationship. Let’s say there are two people who totally love each other. I mean, totally head over heels in love with each other, no exaggeration, and they’re both living their life at peak levels of energy. They take care of their body, they push themselves, they’re strong, they go for it. So, two people totally in love, madly in love, super high energy. What kind of relationship can you predict they’ll have? Boring, slow, ugly? Or freaking magnificent?

Same two people, totally in love with each other, and now they’ve let life kind of wear them down a bit. Now they’re down. They’re not up here; they’re down here. Where, you know, it’s like, “How are you feeling?” “Okay.” “How are you doing?” “Pretty good.” “How are you?” “Better than dead.” Are they going to have the same relationship? Yes or no? Is this going to be a magnificent relationship even though they totally love each other? Is it the same relationship? Yes or no? At best, it’s going to be good.

Energy and Life Challenges

What happens when the same two people who totally adore each other, love each other, but they let life wear them down? They’ve gotten used to being lower energy. They talk all the time about how stressed they are, how busy they are. They talk about it, they’re focused on it, they’re there all the time. There’s plenty to be stressed about. There’s always something that’s wrong that you can find if you look for it. There’s always something wrong; there’s always something right if you look for it, right? It’s not positive thinking; it’s just being intelligent.

But let’s say their energy is low. They’re exhausted from taking the kids to soccer, to football (excuse me, I know what we call soccer is your football, right?), and taking them to dance classes. The business has some cash flow challenges, and Grandma’s a little sick. They both get really worn down, and now both are in a lousy energy, low energy, lousy state. Is it going to be a magnificent relationship even though they love each other? Yes or no? It’s not even going to be good. So, my point is, our energy is everything.

The Source of Energy

But here’s the challenge, and I’m sure you’ve experienced this: how many of you have days when you wake up in the morning and your brain says, “Let’s go get them!” and your body says, “I can’t get out of bed”? Or how many of you have days when you wake up in the morning and you think to yourself, “I don’t want to talk to people today,” but if you don’t talk to people, your business doesn’t grow, your career doesn’t go anywhere, your family doesn’t go anywhere, you don’t go anywhere?

If you take it, “How are you doing?” “I’m good.” “Aren’t you good?” “Yes, we’re good.” We all know fake, right? There’s so much fake in our society. I mean, even reality television is fake. People are starving for something real, right? So, what do you do if you’re exhausted and you know you need the energy? Well, the answer to that question is based on where do you think energy comes from? From food, we should talk.

How many of you in this room can remember a big holiday season meal that you had? And when you have that food, you probably just say, “I’m going to eat perfectly. I’m going to eat really only the best food, lots of vegetables.” Is that what you do? Now, how much food do you eat on those festival-type days? More than the body can withstand. And by the way, how do you feel after all that food? Do you feel like going out there and playing football? Or do you feel like lying down on that couch, watching that boob tube? Right, because your energy goes through the floor. You know why? Because food is not The Source of Energy. It is a source, not the source.

The Role of Food and Sleep in Energy

Of course, food’s important, but most people—do you ever see people after lunch? Is their energy higher or lower? Usually, it’s lower because of the way most people eat. Like I teach this in my seminars, it literally causes you to lose energy because digestion done ineffectively takes more energy than anything else in your body. That’s why you don’t feel like making love after that big meal, or you don’t feel like going and running on your business or helping your kids. It’s like, “I need a little break right now.”

Okay, I’ve got a question for you. I know the first day is hard, mostly mental, right? You think it’s physical, but after three days, does your energy increase with no food or decrease? It increases. How do you explain that? Because food’s not the source. So, if you haven’t eaten, it’s okay. But what would be The Source of Energy if it’s not food? Then sleep? Okay, I think sleep’s an important thing, but how many of you have ever slept eight hours and you were still freaking tired? How many of you have had a day where you were totally exhausted, you didn’t have enough sleep, but boom, something happened, you were so excited, you were awake all day?

The True Source of Energy: The Mind

Most people don’t know what the word “competition” means. In its original Latin root, whether it’s translated to German or not, the Latin root means to conspire together. If I’m competing with you, I am conspiring with you to make you better and make me better. If we go play a game and I’m easy on you, you’re not going to get better. If you’re easy on me, I’m not going to get better. So, the reason we compete is to make each other better, to conspire.

So, we’re going to play a little game because if you want to know The Source of Energy, it actually is the mind. But it’s also, though, not only the mind, it’s a habit. And that’s the problem with COVID. We have habits we don’t even realize we have. So, I want you to know how you can snap into this place when you need to, even if you’re exhausted. The easiest way to do that is the way you move. Movement creates emotional change. Movement produces energy.

In fact, you know a child because when they walk into the room, you see a kid do this: they walk into the living room like this, and then they go, “Ah!” They walk out like nothing happened. And you know someone’s old because they barely move. No movement is also called death, right? So, we want to move, which includes our voice and our face. The way we use our face changes our energy, our voice does it, but our voice is movement also. If you laugh and enjoy laughing, it’s because it creates internal movements that you don’t normally make. So, singing is the same thing. People love to sing because it creates that movement. You don’t have to have anybody see it, but once you open your brain, once your energy is flowing, it feels so much better.

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