The Power of Full Engagement

Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to Performance and Personal Renewal

By: Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz

Narrated by: Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz

“Combines the gritty toughmindedness of the best coaches with the gentle-but-insistent inspiration of the most effective spiritual advisers” (Fast Company).

This groundbreaking New York Times bestseller has helped hundreds of thousands of people at work and at home balance stress and recovery and sustain high performance despite crushing workloads and 24/7 demands on their time.

We live in digital time. Our pace is rushed, rapid-fire, and relentless. Facing crushing workloads, we try to cram as much as possible into every day. We're wired up, but we're melting down. Time management is no longer a viable solution. As bestselling authors Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz demonstrate in this groundbreaking book, managing energy, not time, is the key to enduring high performance as well as to health, happiness, and life balance. The Power of Full Engagement is a highly practical, scientifically based approach to managing your energy more skillfully both on and off the job by laying out the key training principles and provides a powerful, step-by-step program that will help you to:

* Mobilize four key sources of energy
* Balance energy expenditure with intermittent energy renewal
* Expand capacity in the same systematic way that elite athletes do
* Create highly specific, positive energy management rituals to make lasting changes

Above all, this book provides a life-changing road map to becoming more fully engaged on and off the job, meaning physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused, and spiritually aligned.© 2003 Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz; (P)2003 Simon and Schuster, Inc.

Critic reviews

Stephen R. Covey Author, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Tremendous! The Power of Full Engagement is a remarkable application of the athletic metaphor to high-performing people and organizations. This reader-friendly book is filled with compelling insight, real-life illustrations, and practical to-dos. Loehr and Schwartz will inspire you to increase your energy capacity in all dimensions: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.

Barry Diller Chairman and CEO, USA Interactive Now, and I'm sure for the future, anything that can lead to healthier minds and bodies of executives -- and therefore to more responsible leadership -- is almost a national imperative. To that end, this book is a real contribution.

Dan Brestle President, Estée Lauder Companies A true wake-up call. At a time when the media is filled with stories of executives with warped values, this book will give you the confidence and a clear road map to tackle your problems with positive energy and moral strength.

Scott Miller President and CEO, Hyatt Corporation The principles articulated in The Power of Full Engagement have been important to me personally and as the leader of a large company. We really do have to train in business in the same way that great athletes do, learning how to peak at critical moments, but also to rest and regroup in order to build back capacity.

Marcus Buckingham Coauthor, First, Break All The Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths Fantastic! At the heart of this book is a simple truth: the secret to lasting success -- individually and organizationally -- lies in how we manage our energy. This is a phenomenal insight that most of us ignore. Tony Schwartz and Jim Loehr provide a very practical map for marshaling our energy -- physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually -- to live much more productive and fulfilling lives.

Betty Edwards Author, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain At last here's a book that takes on an endemic problem in American life: why do we never have enough time and energy for the things that matter most? In lucid, transparent, and elegant prose, the authors lay out a coherent solution with unassailable logic. I can't imagine any person who won't find a mirror image in every section of this book.

Get Energy, get success

I have listened this book for two times. Iam an english student in mexico and also an entreprenur, i agree with the authors, you must to have energy to acomplish your goals. For me it is a good book, no magical of course, but if i can put in practice some of the advise i have learned, the book is paid.

EXCELLENT

concise, cohesive, compelling, well presented material. a thoughtful and helpful and inspiring book. glad I read it.

Awesome!

Excellent book for busy professionals! Read it s couple times and let it soak in.

Template for Living

Overall it was very helpful and served as a wake up to parts in my life. The authors did a great job narrating their stories. I typically skim stories in business books looking just for insights or the big takeaway but their examples listening were engaging and supported what they wanted to resonate with the reader/listener. I am eager to look at their online content to further my own development around mind, body, and soul. I would recommend James Altucher's book Choose Yourself with this book.

Great Practical approach.

Would you listen to another book narrated by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz ?

Yes.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

I really enjoyed the tips and taking other factors into account such as diet, rest, emotion, exercise and personal relationships.

Any additional comments?

Very good book. Easy to understand. Easy to apply to everyday life. Great job by the authors.