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Net Energy Gain. A concept and a practice I’ve been refining over many years. I joined the Army when I was 16 and did Basic Training when I was 17. 5 out of 10 of my training team were combat veterans. The training was wild to say the very least, and to a teenage brain extremely impactful. Everything mattered, everything related directly or indirectly to the life or death of you or your team mates. Attention to detail became an obsession. Thinking ahead and being prepared for contingencies became an obsession. Your absolute, best effort every day no matter what, was the performance baseline. I started to worry about all of it, all the time. I started overthinking everything, doubting my abilities, exhausting myself with to much concern about possible futures that would never manifest. I was completely maxing out my cognitive bandwidth for nothing, performance suffered. I had to find a better way. I made a study of how I was relating to a typical training day. I was way to amped up, giving way to much energy to unimportant details. I analyzed how I related to high risk activities like parachuting. Again way to worried about getting it wrong. I needed to learn to chill out. I was on, all day. I never took my foot off the gas, ever. A performance obsession was tipping into performance anxiety. I started training myself to look for gaps in the day when I could switch off, to not unconsciously leak precious energy into imaginary possibilities. I starting telling myself that I Was prepared, that I was doing well, that they chose me for good reason. I talked with my mentors, what were the primary points of performance that were the key pieces. I was including way to much secondary and extraneous detail and overemphasizing those. Gradually I turned the tables and trained my mind to identify and focus on the most important and transferable skills in each part of training. I sought critical feedback constantly to speed the learning curve and mitigate guesswork. I started enjoying the training, even started to thrive, to feel like I belonged, like I could contribute something. Think about what you’re facing on a daily basis. What takes your attention, what drains you, what are you overemphasizing? How many ‘browsers’ do you have that are open in your mind? The to do list, emails, family, unresolved issues? Plug the leaks, mend your systems, learn what to focus on, build rest periods into the day, no phone. Accumulated small energy savings through the day. That equals Net Energy Gain.

@_WeylanWalker Thanks man ! 👊 You to, all the best.

@adrienne_lain @thejustinwelsh Couldn’t agree more Adrienne 😌 It an incredible moment in history.

@uprising_dad Yes Jens, patience and fortitude.

@thesagartejpal Yes! I really believe that 🙏

@orangebook_ That’s awesome. And you feel great.

@Jthom1236 That’s perfect. He’s a master wordsmith 🤜🤛

@Jthom1236 To true. It’s also pretty toxic to live in pretense and out of alignment.

@SkyeNyssa Awesome! Mines pretty unpleasant, so I’m highly motivated!

@GregTomaselli @thejustinwelsh 💯! 👊

@_InspireClips @thejustinwelsh The ownership piece hold a ton of intrinsic value. It’s yours, the level of success is down to you. Not your manager, not the company, the politics. The ultimate self development tool.

@stefanjobe_ @thejustinwelsh Right on man, totally agree. Always seeking to blend and improve them both at the same time.

@HenriBranding Right on Henri. When everything is boiled down that is the recipe right there.

@JulietisDebra I like that. The mind is capable of any reality.

@ThomasGogginjr That’s the primary decision. Reinforce that every day.

@SkyeNyssa 💯 Nyssa. Build a powerful anti-vision. You can never go back.

@DadFitSpartan @thejustinwelsh Right on Barret 👊

@kylekoleber @RyanHoliday Protect that cognitive bandwidth at all costs.

@Be_Bett3r @RyanHoliday Right man. Clarity of vision first. The rest come in behind the vision.

@RyanHoliday The Mind is Primary.