The Energy Efficient Kawhi Leonard

Your energy is your most important resource! Everything you do or is done to you impacts your energy. Physically. Mentally. Emotionally. Spiritually. Sensory. High. Low. Positive. Negative.
 
If you keep your energy healthy, you can get through your busy day, your goals & grow...
 
Energy health is personal to me. I saw first-hand how the loss of energy in both my father and my mother eventually led to their deaths. And as a caregiver for eight of the past sixteen years, I studied energy health as a solution to my problem of burnout. I’ve learned how to manage & grow my energy to be a better caregiver, better athlete, better at business, more creative, and blow past my goals and personal bests.
 
Now after two years of blogging and six months of podcasting, I’ve started this newsletter so thank you for being a part of our journey to keep our (& our loved ones) energy healthy. As we think of our father wherever he is on this Father’s Day, I share this poem to you my father wrote a long time ago to me:
 
Out of many…
One!
You are.
 
TYPES OF ENERGY
These are the 5 types of energy at work within you based on my interpretation of how our inner universe works:
 
PHYSICAL energy is your ability to fuel your body. You do this through the right fluids, foods and fitness.
 
MENTAL energy is your ability to filter so you can focus. My insight into this came from Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs. "Steve was very, very strict about filtering out what he thought of as distractions," Walter Isaacson said in an interview with the Harvard Business Review. "He would pick four or five things that were really important for him to focus on and then just filter out - almost brutally - filter out the rest."
 
EMOTIONAL energy is your ability to fortify your feelings so no one can mess with you. This is especially important to those of us who like to help others to protect us from manipulative or ignorant people.
 
SPIRITUAL energy is your ability to have faith in yourself. This can come from your God, your friends, your family, your yoga practice, the stars, the sky, anything in nature, whatever or whoever gives you confidence.
 
SENSORY energy is your ability to stay fresh from sight, smell, sound, taste & touch pollution. This is a new type of energy I’ve introduced because I feel you need to protect your senses whether it’s from climate pollution, digital pollution, food pollution, noise pollution and people pollution.
 
The key to be energy healthy to get through your day, your goals & grow is to have the right energy at the right time. So let’s look at Kawhi Leonard and how his energy helped him become a champ.
 
THE ENERGY EFFICIENT KAWHI LEONARD, TORONTO RAPTORS
Kawhi doesn’t fit the stereotype of a guy you normally say is full of energy but analyze him through the lens of the types of energy and you will discover he is a powerhouse of energy because he is incredibly energy efficient.
 
PHYSICAL
He has the fuel to play both offence and defence at an All-Star level.
 
MENTAL
He’s a man of few words and that allows him to filter everything out to focus only on what's happening on the court.
 
EMOTIONAL
His feelings are like a fortress, he keeps an even temperament win or lose.
 
SPIRITUAL
Prayer is what works for him. “Last year was a very down year for me, I was going through a lot. And you know, God is good! I prayed every day and ended up getting healthy, now I’m able to play basketball. You could just see what He does for you,” Kawhi said in the post-game interview after his series winning shot against Philadelphia.
 
SENSORY
He never lets the noise of the crowd get in his business.
 
Cheers to your energy and a super start to your week! Stephen