There are many things we can do to increase our energy, but here are the 5 major things you can do to boost your energy to get three times as much done in a day.

5. Boost

4. Conserve

3. Increase Eustress

2. Use Proper Fuel

1. Decrease Distress

Starting from number 1

Decreasing distress will have the biggest effect on your energy levels. Examples are losing weight and smoking. Heavier people require more energy to move their weight about. Obese people usually tire easily as they use their energy quicker then lean people. Smoking also causes distress as your body requires energy to deal with the poisons that are taken into the body. There are two ways you can prevent distress, they are Avoidance: Stay away from smoking of foods that are going to make you gain weight; and Recovery: When you stop smoikng and eating junk food, give your body adequate recovery time. Your body recovers while you are asleep, so make sure you have adequate undisturbed sleep.

2. Use proper fuel: The body requires 5 sources of fuel. They are:

Macronutrients- carbohydrates for energy, proteins for building blocks, fat and oils which are essential for running of body systems.

Sunlight- Too much can cause cancer, but your body needs sunlight and the vitamin D that it gets from it.

Oxygen- essential for breathing but is also the product that is needed to release energy and convert ATP to ADP

Micronutrients- vitamins and minerals and phytonutrients

Water- 70% of the non fat body weight is composed of water. Those with a higher percentage of fat will also have a higher percentage of water.

All these things are needed to produce ENERGY.

3. Increase Eustress: Exercise is eustress which is positive stress. Your body upgrades itself when put under this stress. This makes your body grow and increase the capacity for work. Although eutress takes energy away initially, in the long term it provides you with more energy. Caution: Exercising too much, too long or improperly could cause distress.

If you look at top earners in any company, you will find the vast majority of them are fighting fit. This is so they can have the energy to work their business properly and do what needs to be done to be successful.

4. Conserve: Avoid wasting Energy in non-useful ways.

Turn off email and cell phones when possible and avoid distractions. Set targets each day and focus your energy on hitting those targets.

Don’t worry about the things you can’t control and avoid energy leeches such as the guy in your office who wants to talk for half an hour about the ball game the night before, or maybe it is your wife  and kids continually interrupting your flow. Tell them that you are busy, but you will be happy to talk to them once you have hit all your goals for the day. Try and isolate yourself as much as possible from all distractions.

5. Boost: There are some things out there that can boost your performance, like certain vitamin and minerals, but we tend to go overboard and fill our bodies with mass quantities of these things that can sometimes cause more harm than good. I am no doctor or health expert so I wont go into all the possibilities here.

What I do know however is that most Americans go straight to the boost stage to try and increase their energy and consume coffee and energy drinks which have an adverse effect and cause a rush of energy for 30 minutes or so, but then the body crashes again as it tries to recover from the change in balance.

There is no supplemental substitute for the steps of the pyramid. If you can control these things in order from 1 to 5 you will find there is no need for constantly boosting your system with artificial energy boosters.

A good rule of thumb for people working in an office or any desk job is to work for 50 minutes, then go and have a 5-10 minute walk outside in the sun if possible and make sure you get some water. This will regenerate your mind and body and make you much more effective in your work.

Can you put a price tag on your head? Can you demand a certain wage from your employer? If not, why not?

Look at the amount of money you are making right now. That is exactly what you are worth. If you are making next to nothing and on the poverty scale in income, it is because that is all you are worth. If you were worth more, you would make more. There is no excuse.

You may say that you have more potential and should be making more money, but if you want more money, you will find a way to make it. If that is not how you operate, then you have a problem with your mindset and your self worth.

If I were your boss and I told you that I would give you $50,000 if you could generate 500 quality leads for my business in a month would you get it done? Of course you would. You would find a way to get someone to teach you how to do it so you can do it again and again and make $50,000 every month. If you would do that for an employer for the promise 0f $50,000 a month, why can you not do it for yourself?

The problem lies in your belief and motivation. Why would you be able to get the job done for an employer who has a deadline and is willing to pay you handsomely for it, but would not do it for yourself?

Is it the fear of being fired and losing your job? Or is it because your boss has more faith in you than you do in yourself?

So many entrepreneurs fall into this trap of not being able to get the job done for themselves. They may know what they have to do in order to make themselves successful, but struggle to get motivated to do it. The reason is they are not backed into a corner and being told what to do and have other people relying on them.

They are not willing to perform for themselves. They lack that self belief.

A common trait for many marketers is that crisis stage, where they realize they have no other option than doing what it takes to become successful. It is the place where there is no way out and it’s either fail and quit or roll the sleeves up and do whatever it takes.

The mindset shift during this crisis stage is the shift needed to become successful. It is not an easy thing to have the discipline to have that mindset when you are living a comfortable life, which is why so many people fail in all businesses.

Having a community and mentor is crucial to success. Someone who is going to make you accountable and who has actually gone through the steps and the work to make themselves successful. One of the major problems with the network marketing/MLM models is your upline, who is supposed to be your mentor has no idea what they are doing either and they have not done what it takes to be successful. So, you one unsuccessful person trying to motivate a new recruit. It is a relationship that is destined to fail. Success breeds success and failure breeds failure. It has nothing to do with the product and the business model if you are following the practices of a failure. Only 3% of Network Marketers are successful and if you can manage to align yourself with one of those guys and do what they do, you have a good chance to succeed yourself, but the majority are following the other 97% and are doomed to failure.

Quickly write down the names of the ten people you are most involved with in your life.

That may be friends, family, co-workers etc.

Write them down the page in a list.

Now, by each one of them, write down the amount of money they make in a year.

When you have done that, average them all by adding up the total and divide by 10.

Whatever the result is will be a pretty good indicator of the amount of money YOU make in a year.

The reason. You are a product of your environment.

If you want to change the amount of money you make, you need to change the people you associate with.

But, the better news is, you are only a product of your environment because you want to be. You are completely in control of your own thoughts, so you are completely to blame for the situation you are in.

If the people you associate with are getting you down and killing your dreams, you need to seriously evaluate those relationships and see if they are good for you. Do they have your best interests at heart, or are they stuck in a poverty mentality with no ambition to get out to bigger and better things?

In order to change your financial thermostat, you need to associate with people who make the kind of money you want to be making. That might be hard at first, but you need to find yourself a mentor and leader who will be able to coach you and introduce you to a better way and higher mindset.

You are completely in control of your own thoughts, therefore you can completely change the situation you are in right now. No-one is going to do it for you, but if you can find a mentor to teach you the right mindset and marketing plan, your mission can be accomplished with little more than passion and focused action.

If I knew when all the good ideas were going to spring into my mind I would have been a millionaire many years ago. The fact is, they come and go all the time, but only for a flash. If you don’t remember them and write them down right away, they will be gone as fast as they come.

That is why I carry a pocket sized note book everywhere I go. This habit has been the number one reason for my success over the past few years. It doesn’t matter where I am, if  have an idea for a project, blog post, marketing tactic, or the next big idea or invention I write it down right away along with all the other thoughts that stem from it.

Having these ideas written out on paper means I will never forget them and I will be able to take action on them as soon as I get the chance. So many days in my past, I came up with some great ideas, but never followed through with them because I couldn’t remember the full thought, or even forgot it completely.

Andrew Carnegie says this same habit was as much responsible for his success growing the world’s greatest company The Carnegie Steel Company. Carnegie took the step a little further and wrote down every morning the 6 things he had to get accomplished for that day. He let no interruptions disturb him until he had completed the tasks. He found this exercise so effective that he had everyone in his company do the same and he saw his growth and productivity go through the roof.

In today’s society it s more important than  ever to have some kind of system to capture your thoughts and keep your days organized and productive. If it’s not the constant emails, it’s the cell phone or in this work from home time, the kids want to come in and visit and break your flow. Believe me, I struggled with this for years and couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t successful. The reason was, I was getting about 2 hours of actual work done in an eight hour work day trying to do it all from home with the constant distraction a home brings.

This is an all too familiar problem for a large percentage of the home based work force. Another 79 million people plan to start a new home based business in the next few years. They had better have a plan to get organized and use a method like the notebook to keep their ideas organized and their minds clear.

Email companies and cell phone companies now have organizers on the phone, but how many people actually use that feature? I tried that for a while, but it didn’t work. It was more of a distraction because I kept on getting interupted with calls and wanting to check my messages.

Mark Joyner, the godfather of internet marketing has had much success with his Simpleology software, which is a free service and one which I have been using for years too, but most of my ideas come when I am away from the computer, so the old fashioned note book comes with me everywhere I go.

Try this exercise of carrying a notebook and write out the 6 things you need to get accomplished before anything else each day. (Checking emails is not one of them) When the innovative thoughts that come into your head each day arrive, write them down quickly before they leave again and carry on with your tasks knowing that your god ideas have been logged. Develop this as a habit by doing it for 3 weeks and see what a difference it make for your business. I would be shocked if you were not getting 2 to 3 times as much work done in a normal day. Some people have even said they have done the work in a day what would usually take them a week. A very simple idea, but if it was thought worthy enough of the richest man in the world, Andrew Carnegie, then it is worthy enough for us too.

There are 5 stages of a dream, but most people never get past stage 2. To make dreams become a reality, you need to fulfill all 5 stages.

It all starts with a thought.

I thought it stage

Every dream starts with a thought. You begin to wonder what it would be like at achieve your dream. You question if it is even possible for it to become a reality and whether you can move forward as more than just a thought.

I caught it stage

After you think about t for a while, you get excited. You begin to think of the possibilities and it becomes more than just a thought. You begin to research and read about it and make contacts and get more information. You start to believe you can do it. This is the stage that most people stop at. They may read about some business opportunity online and get excited about the possibilities of a change in lifestyle and the money they could make and what good they could do with it. They go through all the information but are too scared to move to the next stage which is the I Bought It stage.

I bought it stage

This is the stage that separates the men from the boys. The serious from the tire kickers. The entrepreneurs from the hopefuls. Every dream has a price. Most people can think it and catch it, but are not willing to pay the price to continue their dream and make it a reality. They are not willing to get up early and stay up late. Not willing to get the education and learn new skills. Not willing to pay to go the extra mile and do what it takes, whether with a financial or time and effort commitment. They assume because they have a dream, it will come to them automatically. Nothing comes without action and effort. Every dream has a price. It is going to cost you hours of doing things others wont do. Otherwise, your dream will pass you by.

You have to pay now and play later. Get the discipline and education now so you don’t play now and pay later. Go after the dream while you are able, for if you don’t you will regret it later in life. The I bought it stage has a price to pay. Once you pass this test though, you get to move to the next stage.

I sought it stage

The desire begins to set in and you begin to go after it. You get on a mission with laser focus and take the action needed to make your dream a reality. You sell yourself on the fact that you are going to do what it takes to become a success. You don’t listen to the negative people in your life who say it can’t be done. Nothing is going to stop you.

I got it stage

When you are determined, nothing can stop you. Once you reach the I got it stage, you are standing in the dream. It has become a reality and you are living it. It is no longer a theory in your head. Your thoughts and actions have manifest into reality. Your dream has come to be. Your lifestyle has changed, you are living as you dreamed you would and you can afford to do the things you wanted when that first thought sparked in your mind and you began to think of the possibilities.

I taught it stage

There is another stage after you have realized your dream. This is when you have a passion for teaching the things you have learned and you become a mentor and a leader to other people who want to share your dream and have the success that you have. These are the leaders in your company that do trainings and are willing to give their time to help others achieve their dreams. There is as much satisfaction from this stage as there is from realizing your own dream.

A dream breaks through your limitations. When you begin to live the dream, you begin to establish new dreams, bigger and better than your original thought.

If you apply yourself and make up your mind that you are going to achieve your dreams, they will become a reality. It all starts with a dream!