Over half of UK business chiefs (54%) depressingly anticipate impending burnout as 2025 begins. And as they look towards an endlessly stressful work horizon unsurprisingly almost 40% are considering changing roles.
But, if economic volatility will inevitably continue, staff challenges inevitably remain core to running a business, and profitability inevitably forever underpins success, then surely jumping ship and climbing aboard another seemingly more tantalising one won’t necessarily eliminate that threat of burnout. The risk will stay the same because the business conditions are the same universally, and ultimately burnout is the individual’s responsibility, not the company’s.
Now, I coach many high performing individuals who are ambitious grafters, good at their craft, excited by their impact, but like those business chiefs they are wobbling at the intensity of the workplace of today and wondering “What next?” and “How?”. They’re exhausted, apparently time-starved and energetically depleted. “I don’t have the energy for it all.”, is the number one lament I hear from enquiring clients seeking the nirvana of their Success Strategy 101.
If we take full self-accountability for discovering the ‘what next’ and ‘how’, Energy management is absolutely foundational to any smidgen of success in our lives. Period. If we don’t learn about our own energetic rhythms, what expands our energy and what depletes it, how to maintain it and soothe it, we will never be able to deliver our highest contribution out there in the world. We just won’t.
I believe we should seize Energy as one of our Superpowers. Here’s a short excerpt about approaching energy this way from my new book Big Impact without Burnout: 8 Energizing Strategies to Stop Struggling and Start Soaring.
Energy is everything. It’s the difference between walking into a room and inspiring levels of collaboration, enthusiasm and interest, or not. It’s the power you possess to magnetize others to hear you, see you and look forward to spending time with you, or not. It’s the stillness of calm, contemplative floaty zendom, and of excited, rapidly flowing rushes of thoughts and emotions. It’s a sensory reading of another as you absorb their energetic vibe, attractive or repulsive, addictive or impartial, interesting or meh. It’s fundamental to how you contribute to the world. It’s the most elemental essence of your impact.
In this strategy you will learn how to stop viewing energy as a binary push-pull lever with an “in then out” mechanism. My intention is that you will understand more about the delicate dynamism of energy and how to gracefully work with it, not against it.
You cannot assume your energy system is a cycle you can hack through tipping energizers into your energy bucket, filling it to the brim ready for action, then draining it empty and trudging back to the well to replenish it once again. This endless careering from full to empty, the extremes of brim-full to bone dry – that’s not how energy flows. You will learn to revere your energy. Just as the most successful, impactful people on the planet understand that only with a respect for their natural, highly personal energetic rhythms and sensitivities can they realize their ambitions, you too will learn to unlock your energy as a superpower. You will hone the elegance of consistent energy management, protecting your very life force as it pulses, enabling it to dynamically flow, expanding and contracting in harmony with your intentions.
You will learn about the “whole-istic” approach to your energy and the unique, ever-undulating interplay between your physical, intellectual and soulful elements. How to honour these intertwining connections and maintain what I call your Harmonic Energy State. You will learn not about filling a bucket, which then empties, but filling a well that endlessly self-replenishes, enabling you to focus on your biggest impact without burning out. Energy will become you superpower.
I have three core tenets that I teach 121 with clients, in my workshops and corporate programmes, to step into this place of positive energy management.
- Nourishment
- Rejuvenation
- Maintenance
In this video I share lots of details around each of these principles to bring them to life with my passion and expertise…
In summary:-
Nourishment focuses on your bio-individuality and respecting the delicacy of your unique ecosystem and how you respond to substances, environments, situations and people differently to the person sitting next to you. Be intuitive with what you consume and when. Learn to understand how what you consume is impacting how you feel and either positively enhancing your energy or depleting and draining it. Remember that the natural state for our human body is to be in a state of harmony. Our bodies want peace. We want to keep reverting back into homeostasis that is our default state. But sometimes we can trip ourselves up by consuming substances, food or drink, or being in environments that actually trigger us into non-homeostatic states where perhaps we are inflamed. 
Rejuvenation is again about the bio-individuality of what relaxes and truly rejuvenates you. If we don’t rejuvenate and factor in healthy restorative rest into our worlds, then of course we’re going to remain energy depleted. So really understanding that personal moment of when it’s too much and rest needs to be brought in is a skill that we need to respect and honour, doing everything in our power to revere good sleep and good rest. A good tip is to go back to what you used to do as a child when you were really absorbed in a flow state of calm and try to emulate that relaxation style again today.
Maintenance comes when the nourishment, rejuvenation and what it is that your body, mind and soul need are consistently present and thus ensure your life is consciously architected around the realm of graceful productivity. I encourage you to understand how to soothe your adrenal glands, stay in a place of consistent, energetic flow, listen to your body when you are exhausted and take that time to give your body what it needs.
Overall, start working With Your Energy because when you tune into energy this way, unfailingly you will thrive. Your very essence is here to bubble with the energy that you need to do the work that you care about delivering. My wish is that you bounce with all the energy that you need and you feel happy and contributory in your most positive way.
To experience my energy management coaching message me here.
With love and blessings as ever,
Bianca x
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- I work with businesses to combat the organizational impact of burnout by teaching employee the self-agency to positively impact productivity, engagement and commercial results.
- I work with ambitious individuals to avert burnout through energy management, body, mind and soul coaching ensuring dreams are realized and work is joyful never a struggle.
- My business mission is a working world filled with graceful productivity, kind leadership and unlocked human potential. Read more about the magic I hope to sprinkle here and if you’d like us to work together message me here.
May you forever flourish, x
