"Life happens, but focusing on what you can control and recalibrating as needed keeps you on track."

"The key to thriving is aligning your time, energy, and priorities so they work together seamlessly."

"Protect your priorities by minimizing distractions and focusing on high-yield activities."

Thriving is when your time, energy, and priorities are in sync, allowing you to achieve more without the stress of constant overwork. Carey Nieuwhof emphasizes that merely managing time isn’t sufficient; aligning these three elements is crucial for sustainable success.<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Aligning your core assets helps prevent burnout and fosters a balanced, fulfilling life.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Distractions and overcommitment are major obstacles that can derail your alignment.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Syncing time, energy, and priorities enhance productivity and overall well-being.</li></ul>

Thriving Requires Alignment of Time, Energy, and Priorities

"Identify your green zones and use them for your most critical work to maximize your productivity."

Stress and change are inevitable, but you can maintain your thriving cycle by focusing on what you can control and recalibrating as needed. Regularly assessing and adjusting your priorities helps you stay on track.<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Schedule all your priorities to prevent unplanned commitments from taking over.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Embrace flexibility and adaptability to handle unexpected changes.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Regularly reassess your time, energy, and priorities to stay aligned.</li></ul>

Life Happens: Focus on What You Can Control and Recalibrate When Needed

"At Your Best" provides a roadmap for overcoming burnout and thriving by aligning your time, energy, and priorities. By following Nieuwhof’s insights, you can achieve a balanced, productive, and fulfilling life.<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Schedule all your priorities to keep your life aligned and focused.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Regularly reassess and adjust your time, energy, and priorities.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Embrace flexibility to handle life’s inevitable changes and challenges.</li></ul>

Conclusion

Understanding and leveraging your energy cycles is essential to maximize productivity. Everyone has peak performance hours, called green zones, which should be reserved for the most important tasks.<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Green zones are peak energy and productivity periods, typically lasting 3-5 hours daily.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Yellow zones are moderate-energy times suitable for less critical tasks.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Red zones are low-energy periods best used for routine or administrative tasks.</li></ul>

Focus Your Time by Discovering Your Energy Zones

"Maximize your green zone by focusing on tasks that utilize your unique gifts and passions."

"Invest your time in relationships that matter and learn to say no to protect your focus."

To thrive, it’s crucial to utilize your green zones effectively by focusing on tasks that align with your gifts, passions, and impact. This strategic approach ensures that your best energy is spent on what truly matters.<ul><li>Your green zone should be dedicated to high-impact tasks that align with your strengths.</li><li>Yellow zones can handle moderately important tasks that require less energy.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Red zones are ideal for routine, non-critical activities.</li></ul>

Leverage Your Energy by Doing Your Best Work When You’re at Your Best

Maintaining focus on your priorities and minimizing distractions are essential for achieving your goals. Unprioritized tasks and interruptions can easily hijack your day, leaving you feeling unaccomplished.<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Prioritize high-yield activities that drive the most significant results.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Create a distraction-free workspace to enhance focus and productivity.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Use tools and techniques to minimize interruptions and maintain priority focus.</li></ul>

Realize Your Priorities by Focusing on the Right Tasks and Fighting Distractions

Investing time in the right relationships and learning to say no is vital for maintaining focus and energy. Prioritizing meaningful connections and setting boundaries ensures that your time is spent wisely.<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Spend time with top performers and those who energize you.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Use Pareto’s principle to focus on the most valuable relationships.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Develop strategies to say no gently and protect your time.</li></ul>

Prioritize the Right Relationships and Learn to Say No

"At Your Best" by Carey Nieuwhof is a practical guide designed to help individuals overcome burnout and start thriving by aligning their time, energy, and priorities. The book's key insight is the importance of syncing these three core assets to achieve sustainable productivity and well-being. By following the principles outlined in this book, readers can learn how to manage their lives more effectively and start living at their best.

“A perceptive and practical book about why our calendars so rarely reflect our priorities and what we can do to regain control.”—ADAM GRANT   “Carey’s book will help you reorganize your life. And then you can share a copy with someone you care about.”—SETH GODIN You deserve to stop living at an unsustainable pace. An influential podcaster and thought leader shows you how. Overwhelmed. Overcommitted. Overworked. That’s the false script an inordinate number of people adopt to be successful. Does this sound familiar:   ● Slammed is normal. ● Distractions are everywhere.  ● Life gets reduced to going through the motions.   Tired of living that way? At Your Best gives you the strategies you need to win at work and at home by living in a way today that will help you thrive tomorrow.   Influential podcast host and thought leader Carey Nieuwhof understands the challenges of constant pressure. After a season of burnout almost took him out, he discovered how to get time, energy, and priorities working in his favor. This approach freed up more than one thousand productive hours a year for him and can do the same for you.   At Your Best will help you ● replace chronic exhaustion with deep productivity ● break the pattern of overpromising and never accomplishing enough ● clarify what matters most by restructuring your day ● master the art of saying no, without losing friends or influence ● discover why vacations and sabbaticals don’t really solve your problems ● develop a personalized plan to recapture each day so you can break free from the trap of endless to-dos Start thriving at work and at home as you discover how to be at your best.

CAREY NIEUWHOF

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