The Power of Full Engagement

Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz argue that the real currency of high performance is energy, not time. Drawing on Loehr's years training elite athletes, they identify four sources of energy, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual, and show that peak performance depends on skillfully expending and renewing each one. The heart of their method is the ritual: rather than depending on discipline or motivation, people build small, repeatable routines that make restorative behaviors automatic, from sleep and nutrition to recovery breaks and focused work. The authors weave in stories from athletes and executives who transformed their output by managing energy in cycles of stress and recovery. The result is a practical program for sustaining full engagement in work and life.