In this episode of the Brendon Show, Brendon Burchard explains that managing personal energy is the key to sustained productivity and fulfillment. He argues that everyone has the same amount of time each day, but high‑performers use "strategic resets"—short, intentional breaks roughly every 45‑50 minutes—to prevent burnout and keep their energy levels high. He likens these resets to race‑car pit stops, where a vehicle refuels and receives maintenance before continuing at top speed. Brendon shares his own routine of hourly resets that include standing, stretching, breathing, drinking water, and setting a clear intention for the next period of work. He extends the energy concept to relationships, urging listeners to consistently generate positive energy rather than withdrawing, and to be "extraordinary" by consciously raising the room’s energy. The episode ends with a call to action: listeners are asked to share the episode, spread positivity, and support the Growth Day community.
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So let me tell you a secret of my career. I really believe we all have the same hours in the day. The difference, I believe, is that some people are doing strategic resets throughout the day and other people are burning themselves into the ground. Who knows the difference in this room? Who's had some burnout in the last year? Who can own that? That was your responsibility. See, the power plant is either running at a capacity that is too high and it's going to blow itself up, or it does something called metering the energy. To meter the energy. Larger power plants, they meter the energy. Sometimes they turn on and turn off just to set and reset. Set and reset. Set and reset and reset. My great competitive advantage in my whole career in terms of productivity. Every 50 minutes, I do that. What you just did, every 50. It took a while to explain it, but really, you're just going like this. You're going like this, you're going like this, you're going like this. You're off the races. Close your eyes, set a new intention, and go. See. Anyone ever follow? Like race car driving? See, that's all, okay. They put a track there and little cars on that track and they're real fast. And they go in a circle, real fast. Like 200 miles an hour plus fast, Scary. And they don't go the whole time. They pull over and they do called a what? Pit stop. When they do a pit stop, the crew comes in, boom, and it goes off again. Now, the car didn't need the pit stop when it got the pit stop. The pit stop is a preventative maintenance activity, meaning we're gonna set this thing up so it has more energy to go further. It probably didn't need the refuel at the moment, but it took the refuel so it could go longer. Some of you grind and burn, and you do it all day, every day, and it's a grind and it's a burn, and you're not replenish. You're not doing what we call a strategic reset. For me, it's on the hour. Every hour for 20 years, I'm doing a reset. I never sit at my desk for three hours. And I'm a writer. I sit at my desk. Now I have a thing. My butt hits the ground, I hit a timer. 45 minutes or 50 minutes, boom. I write. No matter. If I'm coming up with genius level stuff and that thing goes beep. I stopped. I stand up. I might do a few downward facing dogs, a little bit of Vinyasa flow. I'll do my qigong I'll go get water, Take a big drink of water, full glass of water, come back, ask what's most important for me to focus on this next hour. What's most important for me to focus on this next hour? What's my intention here? Now, the difference is a lot of people go all day grinding, grinding and burning out and then they get the end of the day, they go, oh, my gosh, I didn't do the thing because they only checked in once. Most people check in once if they're on priority. I had nine or 10 pit stops. How many follow? Most people, you know, they want to work. It's six o'. Clock, I got no energy. Well, of course you burned all day. Six o'.
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I'm getting warmed up because I had my pit stops. I'm fresh and the power plant generates the energy. So I'm going to generate the energy. I also think this follows true in your relationships you have to take responsibility of the energy in your relationships and you've got to generate the energy. I always say love them so much they become lovingly annoyed by you, you know, because what most people do, they try to put good energy into the relationship and then they back away. They try, they back away. They try, they feel discounted. They go away for four or five days, four or five weeks, two, three years, years, and then they go, oh, it didn't work. Oh, no. Energy is daily. You want to shift your team, you want to shift your relationship, you want to shift your own product energy. You've got to win the energy game. More than any other game in my life that I won and try to win, it's the energy game. Because when you're abundant with energy, you can do anything. But remember, the power plant doesn't have energy. It I want you to create a higher level of energy in this room right here. Just deciding to like, oh, we're going to go to this other level. We're going to be extraordinary. So tell the person left. Right, Jacob, say be extraordinary.
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