Hey friends, thanks for tuning into another episode of Tory Dealing With where each episode

is short, sweet, and the perfect thing to enjoy in the morning, just like your coffee.

Welcome to Monday!

As you know, I strategically dropped these episodes on Mondays because the beginning of the week can feel overwhelming.

It's important to go in each week with as much calmness and positivity as possible, so allow this podcast to be your little pick me up.

And I personally always feel overwhelmed by Mondays.

When I look ahead, it just feels like an endless amount of work that keeps growing and growing, but the truth is our lives are not to do lists.

We can have goals and a schedule and a plan, but that's not our purpose.

We were simply born to live.

We are the artist of our lives, the creators, and that energy that we have to create a masterpiece is precious.

You can always get more money, but you can never get more time.

So this week's episode will be focused on how to budget your precious energy.

Energy budgeting is similar to financial budgeting, but in my humble opinion, it's much more important.

Your energy carries you throughout the day from task to task.

When you wake up in the morning, your energy bank is at 100%.

And that's if you got a good night of sleep.

As the day progresses, you use that same energy bank to work, run errands, accept unexpected phone calls, spend time with loved ones,

and find time to squeeze in some physical activity.

Have you ever sat down at the end of the day and accounted for the amount of energy you actually expelled?

No wonder we live in a burnout culture because we are firing on all cylinders and we are exhausted.

More often than not, shifting our perspective can help.

Imagine being above the world for a moment and looking down on all of the movement that's occurring.

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