In Your Life: How Energy Efficient is Your Energy?

As part of my journey toward living a more prosperous and successful life, I frequently spend quality time on personal development.  As I continue this exploration of myself I’ve been reading a book entitled Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You from my favorite author Deepak Chopra.  In the book Deepak provides a very enlightening and informative quiz which allows us to rate our bodies energy efficiency to help demonstrate how if affects our daily lives.  This short quiz helped me to identify areas of myself and my life which need improving and I wanted to share it with you in an effort to help enlighten you further.  Further more, Deepak provides solutions on how to improve these areas of your life in his book, which I’m finding to be a very enlightening and impressive read.  I highly recommend you pick up a copy from Amazon!

Quiz:

To get a better idea of what energy efficiency means and how it is affecting you, take the following profile quiz.  For each item, rate yourself from 1 to 3 according to how well it describes you and total it up at the end.

• 3 – This is how I am almost all the time.
• 2 – This is how I am some of the time.
• 1 – This is how I am a little of the time.

1. I leave work on time every day.  I don’t stay late more than one day a week.
2. I get up and go to sleep at the same time every day.
3. My desk at work is organized.  There’s not a big backlog.
4. I don’t procrastinate.  I believe that the best way to handle unpleasant tasks is to face them right away.
5. I don’t harbor negativity for a long time.  Keeping score and waiting for payback isn’t my style.
6. My closet is organized.  I can get at anything I want easily.
7. My refrigerator isn’t full of leftovers.  I’m not surprised by old fruits and vegetables I forgot I had.
8. I know where I stand emotionally with the people in my life.  We are open and clear with one another.
9. I know my weaknesses and have a plan for overcoming them.  I will be stronger tomorrow than I was yesterday.
10. I use money well.  I don’t hoard and I don’t spend recklessly.  I am not worried about my credit card balances.
11. My salary fits my needs for now and the future.  I am a good financial planner.
12. My yard is maintained in all seasons. (If you don’t have a yard, substitute patio, balcony, house plants, or personal environment.)
13. I keep up with my housekeeping.  I’m not faced with accumulated dust and dirt that’s piled up for weeks.
14. When I go shopping, I come back with what I need.  I rarely have to run back because I forgot something.
15. I keep up with how everyone in my family is doing.  I have a good idea of what’s going on in their lives.
16. I don’t have to rush at the last minute to get things done.  I am good a scheduling and balancing my time.
17. I feel that there’s a good balance between work and play in my life.  I’m having fun and getting things done.

Total Score:

43-51 points. You are leading an efficient life and have a good chance of feeling comfortable, contented, and in control.  There are no drastic imbalances in how you use your time and energy.  Each aspect of your existence is give a good amount of attention.

36-42 points. Your life is mostly under control and runs along well enough.  You have minor areas of neglect, however, and there are times when you feel a little overwhelmed by all the things left undone.

26-35 points. Your life is inefficient.  You have a sense that you are treading water rather than getting ahead.  Too much is out of your control, and your ability to cope with everyday challenges in only adequate.  To begin to feel more comfortable, you will have to discipline yourself and change your habits.  Look realistically at your inefficient ways, because sloppiness or disorganization, procrastination or denial, impulsiveness or neglect drain our energy.

17-25 points. Your life is barely your own because so much is out of your control.  Daily life is a struggle just to keep things together, and most days you feel that you are losing that fight.  On the periphery something very wrong is probably happening.  You are being held back either psychologically or by bad circumstances.  To get back on track, outside professional help will be needed.

Deepak goes on to explain that the best way to provide a solution for the inefficient use of our bodies energy is to become more aware.  I have to say, the more aware of myself I become, the more free I feel!

I hope you found this post enlightening as well explore ourselves on a journey of self improvement.  Please feel free to comment, leave questions and provide feedback.

To Your Success!

Sean Smith

http://powerofmore.net

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