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Balance Your Energy Budget First, review your Energy Budget. Write down all of the necessary actions that need your attention each week – eg, work, family and other vital responsibilities. Now, write down the areas of your life where you are spending time and energy that are less vital. Then identify three or more activities where you could pull back a bit to regain that equilibrium. For example, can you reduce the number of social events or time spent with people or activities that drain you? Does something seem urgent, but can wait till tomorrow or even next week? Finding these little spaces to regain time and energy is vital to our overall health. Then list the things that restore and recharge you. Sleep is the most obvious way we recharge. However, there are important activities that may take energy but also replenish, like exercise, meditation, recreational reading, hobbies and other cathartic activities which allow you to release tension as well as relaxing activities that allow you to restore and rejuvenate. Once you assess your energy budget you will notice if there are extraneous activities unnecessarily draining you of resources. It’s time to stop engaging in toxic activities and spending time with people that drain you of your energy. It’s time to stop doing too much. We need to flip the script on what success means. Success does not have to be synonymous with exhaustion. It’s time to take your control back. Start by being conscious of how you’re feeling in each moment— Where are you? What are you doing? Who are you with? Then begin asking the following questions: Does this give me joy, peace or calm? Is this causing me to feel stressed or unhappy? If the answer is the latter it’s probably time to cut this activity out of the budget.