252: How To Make The Most of Your Daily Energy

Foreign. Welcome to the Earn your happy podcast. I'm Lori Harder, founder of The Bliss Project, 3 Time Fitness World champion, fitness expert and cover model, turned self love junkie, lifestyle entrepreneur and author. Each week I'll bring you a guest or a thought that will help you bust through your fears, connect to your soul and get focused and clear so you can elevate your life, business and relationships. We don't wait until we're ready for someone to tell us we're good enough. We take what we want and we anoint ourselves, get ready to earn, own, and unapologetically rock your happiness every single day. Are you with me? Here we go. Welcome back to the earn your happy podcast. It's time for another quickie because there is always time to fit in inspiration. You guys, I gotta switch it up. I've got to either sing it or wrap it. I don't know. I don't know. We'll have to decide what we like. So on today's quickie, I want to talk to you about what you're giving your energy to. This is so important because energy is our most valuable commodity. With energy, with feeling alive, with feeling like you have enough rest, you can truly do just about anything. So of course there's fear there. But let me ask you a question. When you are tired, the things that seem big, scary or stressful seem even more big, scary and stressful, like a thousand times more compared to when you're arrested and when you have energy and when you just feel good. Except the thing is that a lot of us are not even getting to our maximum energy per day because of our habits and how we're thinking. And also we are giving our energy away to stuff that does not matter. So first, let's talk about needing to get your energy up. Okay, so number one, if you have your full amount of energy that your body can that that your body is supposed to have every single day, you are going to notice that the small, irritating things aren't as irritating. You're going to notice that some of the tough stuff doesn't feel as tough anymore. You're going to. Not that you can just do more, except a lot of us aren't maintaining the habits that can get us to 100%. So I was talking to my friend Mike Karpenko in the gym today and I hadn't seen him in a while and we just dove right into talking about just energy and life and what's going on. And all of a sudden he was saying how, you know, we only get 100 watts of energy per day. And I loved how he was comparing it just to we only get 100 watts, we only get so much energy, right? So if you think of it that way, if you only have 100 watts per day and some things take 20, some things take 50 watts, what are you willing to give your energy to? So when you look at it that way and you know that before you go to bed, you don't get more, it's just that for the day. So number one, I want you to start thinking a lot of us are not waking up with a hundred watts, right? A lot of us are waking up with like 50 or 60 or maybe even less. Okay, so why are we doing that? Let's look at it. So a lot of us, first of all, aren't sleeping because our habits are going to bed late. Maybe we're up looking at the computer, maybe we're eating late. Maybe we have a belief that we have to go to bed late or that we just can't get into bed earlier because the kids or because of the way our life is set up. And again, let's call each other out because that's what we do best on here and that's why it's so important to listen. Those are BS stories. We can always change something, right? Yes, I do not have children, but I do know it is possible to start getting them on a different schedule. Even if it's 20 minutes earlier, even if it's 30 minutes earlier. How could you start really looking at your life to start setting your life up so that everybody gets into to bed earlier in the night so that you can get a few more watts the next day so they can get it too, right? So whether that is you needing to put yourself to bed because a lot of you don't have kids and a lot of you do, Whether that's you needing to put yourself to bed earlier, whether that's you first having to get your kids on a schedule, even if you back it up 10 minutes a night and they don't recognize it, or even 10 minutes a week and slowly they don't recognize it, that might be something really awesome. I know that that is going to be my life's challenge, is attempting to keep myself going to bed earlier and doing as much as I can around sleep. So another thing though, if you cannot manage getting as much sleep as you like, because some of us just don't have that luxury, right? Depending on our jobs or depending on kids ages. So if you cannot do that, try to get your wattage up from other things, such as making sure you're walking or making sure you're meditating or making sure that you are eating well. If you're losing watts to sleep, maybe you could get your wattage up in your food and really looking at that. So that's where we can gain more of it, right? Meditation, working out, food, sleep, and definitely. Listen to this one, you guys. Definitely. Who were around. So how are we losing our wattage? Let's talk about that. Okay. One of the biggest ways that I lose my wattage is by giving an F about things that do not matter. And you know what I'm talking about. By caring about what someone wrote in your inbox who is not in your inner circle. By caring about a Facebook post that seems passive aggressive from somebody who is not in your inner circle. By taking things personal out in the world of someone who drove past you, cut you off, or flipped you off, or someone who was rude to you, or someone who didn't get your order right, or someone who is mindlessly walking and not paying any attention, you get something up your butt for the rest of the day. Like, how rude? Don't these people know they're sharing the planet? Oh, my God. I can't believe she did that. Oh, my God, that post. Okay, you guys, you can't live like that and think that you can have all of your wattage for all of the things that you desire in the world. Oh, for real. The only reason I really want to get this point across is because we're spending all of the most important commodity on shit that does not matter. So if you guys want to add more love to your relationships, if you want to create that magical thing that is waiting to be created in your life, if you want to write that book, if you want to start that podcast, if you want to up your business to six or seven figures, you cannot give a what about just about anything. It has to stay in such a small realm of the things that you care about. Did you like that? You can't give a wad about it. Get it like wattage, in case you didn't get that. Okay. Because your energy is so important, the faster that you can forgive, right? So when we want to give a wat, that's what we'll call it for now. You have to really just say, nope, it's not for me to care about. It's not for me to care about. I'm gonna let go. I'm gonna release. I'm gonna forgive. I'm gonna send compassion. Because every time we care about something. I just want you to picture paying out your wattage and looking at it and saying, well, that felt like 20 watts out of my 100. And now I'm almost down because I've worked out, I've taken care of the kids or I've done, you know, what I needed to do for the day. I've done part of my to do list. I've paid the bills. I've only got 10 watts left. What am I gonna spend it on? Am I log on to Facebook? Am I going to log on to Instagram and give it, give them all away? Or am I going to hand them out in the street because people are pissing me off? You guys, we have to just learn to let things roll off our back. It's like finding that peace within us and knowing that everybody is just on their own journey. And this is not just about peace, love and Zen. Even though that is going to change your life because you're going to be like, oh, my God, I feel amazing. Amazing things are happening to me because I'm like this. But it's also about your energy and what you want to put it towards because you only got 100 watts a day. And all those things take 10, 20, 30, 40, 50. I mean, one DM, right? One post of someone who could really tick you off, could take it all for the rest of the day. And are you willing to give it all to them because they truly are getting all of your power? Who are you going to give your power to? What are you going to give your power to every single day? This has to be your question. And if that seems worthy, then give it away. But if you know it's not worthy, forgive it. Get your claws out of it energetically cut that cord and move to think of something positive. Move to think of something loving. Move to think of something compassionate. If you can understand people in relationships and let things roll and forgive things when they need to be forgiven, you will win at life. You will create everything you want. You will die a happy, complete person. So what are you going to give a. What about today?

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You guys, I'm sending you so much love. I truly, deeply care about you and your missions and I hope that you turn inward and just know that you can't keep giving out your energy. It's what will shift the planet when it is applied into that beautiful gift that was buried inside of you. But you can't dig that crap up until you use all of your energy on finding your gift, using your gift, finding your purpose, and spreading as much love as possible. So thank you guys so much for tuning in as always. And if you feel moved, I would love for you to subscribe Rate Review the Podcast if you've loved any of the information on here, it's truly the way that a podcast gets out and stays out so that I can come and talk to you twice a week and people can hear the podcast and the messages. So you guys, for real, deep, deep gratitude. And until next time, earn your happy. Bye everyone. Thank you guys so much for spending this time with me on the earn your happy podcast. I am so glad that you stopped by. If you could take one second to share this episode with someone you think would love it, that would be absolutely amazing and we would be forever grateful. Also, please leave us a review if you feel so moved by going to itunes and leaving us an honest thought, an honest comment, Tell us what you think, tell us what you want to hear more of. It would really help us out on our journey to helping thousands and thousands of people. Until then, don't forget to earn your happy coffee. Thanks again guys. Bye bye.