The Power of Full Engagement
About the Book
We live in digital time. The pace is rapid fire and relentless and many of us experience 24/7 demands on our time. Always rushing to catch up, we try to cram as much as possible into every day. We are wired up, but we are melting down.
It is our ability to manage energy, not time, that determines our effectiveness at work and our health and happiness in our personal lives. Recognising this will revolutionise our understanding of how best to manage our daily routine.
The Power of Full Engagement is a groundbreaking, scientifically-based training program developed by bestselling authors Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz that is guaranteed to fuel high energy and top performance in today's high-stress, high-speed world. At the heart of this program is The Corporate Athlete training system, developed over a period of 25 years to help some of the world's greatest athletes perform at their best under competitive pressure-now adapted with great success to work and home life alike.
The result is the life-changing power to be fully engaged, which means you are physically energised, emotionally connected, mentally focused, and spiritually aligned. aligned. 1
Why This Book
The Power of Full Engagement is yet book that aligns with Stage 5 — Integration. More specifically, its focus on sustaining performance through energy management rather than time optimisation. Loehr and Schwartz place energy as the finite and limiting resource that must be deliberately expended and renewed, contrasting with the usual focus on time as the limiting resource. This mirrors the Path's perspective that long-term alignment and actions require systems that preserve energy and prevent burnout. The book's premise that recovery is just as essential as effort aligns with both Essentialism and the Path's emphasis on sustainability over intensity.
It complements the Path by adding physiological and psychological grounding to the energy management aspect of Integration. While the Path remains more conceptual, The Power of Full Engagement goes more in-depth into the topic, providing measurable methods for observing and managing energy cycles. However, as with many books of its nature, the framing remains performance-oriented and tied to workplace efficiency, where the Path focuses on sustaining intrinsically aligned motion. Regardless, it remains valuable as a technical companion for Stage 5, providing further models to refine how readers manage energy in pursuit of what truly matters.