www.asianefficiency.com: A while back a friend came to me for some advice. He complained how he wasn’t feeling productive the past few weeks and he wasn’t sure why. Considering he has read Eat That Frog and Getting Things Done – how could you not be productive?
Sure, everyone has unproductive days. Those are easy to turn around. But unproductive weeks? Then we might have to look closer.
After a couple minutes, I realized what the issue was. It wasn’t time management. It was something else.
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I feel like it is often harder to value sleep because people can’t see the product of sleep. Even though the brain is doing a lot of things while sleeping, it just seems like nothing is happening. I’ve put a lot of thought into time management, but not energy management. The way Pham explains energy management shows the importance of it. I think when I am lacking energy I often feel like I just need to push through it, because energy is in my control but time isn’t. This article made it clear that you need to put time into replenishing energy. Based off the various levels in the energy pyramid, it seems like energy management would not only increase efficiency, but make a person happier. How to restore the various levels of the energy pyramid was technically a different article, but the concept of the energy pyramid was the core of the concept of energy management. A lot of what was explained seems intuitive, but actively considering it forced me to give energy the respect it deserves. The mentality explained makes a lot of sense to me, and I will pay more attention to my energy.
The article brings up the ever-popular mantra that I’ve heard for my entire high school career, “sleep, sleep, sleep.” It’s simple enough, as the article adds, and magically solves the constant dilemma of stress that everyone faces in life. Great in theory, not in practice. My typical high school day consists of this: wake up at 6:30, eat breakfast and get ready for school, get to school at 7:00, regular classes run until 3:30, my theater class runs from 3:30 to 4:30, cross country training runs from 4:00 to 6:30. Our teachers tell us we should have about an hour of homework every night for each class. Multiply that by eight classes, including an hour to eat dinner, shower, and go to bed, and now it should be 3:30 in the morning and I am expected to wake up in three hours. If three hours of sleep is all I get if I don't half-finish my homework, then I apologize, but I’ll stick to the Energy Level Pyramid and care about my own health before my classes. The problem is not that people choose not to sleep, the problem is that some people, like me, can’t.
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