Over the past 12 months touring the globe and teaching the strategies within Big Impact Without Burnout, I’ve not had to modify my content much. The facts remain: we were never taught how to manage this “Age of Acceleration” at school, and working well today takes conscious effort — because that ethereal tomorrow, where the task list is complete and we’re all tickety-boo, is never coming. The stress stats keep worsening, and the desire for help keeps intensifying. We’re flailing and exhausted, yet remain as inwardly ambitious as ever.
My lessons are simple: go within to effect the outer. Do the work to put your oxygen mask on first (yes, before the kids, the boss, the friends, the parents, the house, etc.). Become ultra-conscious of where your attention goes (see my Conscious Calendar exercise in the book), and ultimately, respect and revere where and how your energy flows.
The crux of every keynote, training, programme, workshop, article — everything I teach — comes down to this: Energy is the currency of impact.
So, if you want to achieve impact in work, relationships, vitality, wealth, or joy, you must start with your own energy. Watch the currents. Learn your bio-individual rhythms. Harmonise your life to synchronise with what feels good, so you tap into the endless, effervescent source that is your energy well. Map the choices impacting your behaviour and thoughts to honour your Energy-Scape™, as I call it, and plot your Harmonic Energy State. Plan for energy.
Only then will satisfying impact follow.
Only then will graceful productivity flow.
Only then will success with grace be sustainable.
My recent trip to Kraków with Bauer Media Group was a total joy and a recognition of the power of this work. With the president and leadership team, we settled on a title for my Day 2 opening keynote and workshop: Anchored Amid Transitions: Managing Energy in Times of Change.
Boom!
I took the 200 engaged leaders (the willing audience even all joined in with my opening breathwork exercise, well all bar one ;-)) through:-
- How today’s “push culture” has become normalised, why it’s harmful, and where the traps lie
- Energy mastery 101 — peaks, lows, depletion, regeneration, harmony
- Chairos time (what the Greeks called “God’s time”) — how to make it expand and feel delicious, not lacking
- Action with integrity — in which we built the Purpose Sweet Spot, Peak Performance Plans, and explored how to cultivate self-awareness without the fear of being self-ish
I’m deeply grateful for the receptivity of everyone in the room and for the bountiful questions during book signings afterwards and since. It’s true that today’s working world is utterly unprecedented, and the “push harder, do more” culture that once propelled it upward is now wildly broken.
The time is unquestionably now to resist these push/pull norms — to gather momentum for a more graceful flow, individually and collectively. We have to be the change we want to see. It won’t happen otherwise.
And it doesn’t have to be ridiculously complex. We can make simple decisions — like fewer stimulants, more sleep, more focus on the top 20% of tasks that yield 80% of the impact, more true rest (not performative “listening to a podcast while ironing sheets” rest — yes, that was an actual interview answer when researching my book!), more presence, solitude, stillness.
It doesn’t have to be hard. Just decide. Choose to revere your energy as the number one priority influencing your success. It’s magical once you do — I promise.
Back in 2015, after two decades of raising four children while building and selling a business, then climbing the corporate ladder, and immersing myself in healing and consciousness study, I finally broke my burnout cycle. I learned how to keep achieving my dreams without falling over. I bottled up how I did it and started teaching The Energy-Scape™ method around the world with ambitious souls and large organisations like Google, British Gas and Amazon. Today, I run The Better Business teaching leaders, entrepreneurs, global orgs and big dreamers how to succeed with grace. It all starts with energy…
Take your Energy Pulse to measure your burnout risk here – http://bit.ly/4q3qtNe, and discover more tips on YouTube @BBTV (The Big Impact Show™) and Instagram.
Wishing you Energy Unleashed! Bianca x
