I want to start my story with us exes
up here it’s a department store that’s
on the corner of castle Rey streets and
Market Street in the city you might know
it’s pretty famous to store called David
Jones in July 2011 I found myself in the
few Fisheries Department of the menswear
section in David Jones but I had no idea
how I got there for other customers that
were walking around they might have
thought I looked a little bit dazed and
confused but on the inside I was feeling
all sorts of crazy
what snapped me out of it was a phone
call and I don’t remember the content of
that phone call but what I do remember
is how I felt
well it’s physically shaking my voice
was all over the place and still very
grateful for the fact that I was wearing
clothes at least I did something right
that morning but where I started to
realize is how did I get to this place
because I didn’t just wake up one
morning and feel this way and it’s the
closest I can imagine that someone feels
when they’re coming on the verge of a
nervous breakdown and so I started to
look back and think how did I end up
here what were the indicators and what
I’ve come to discover I’ve called this
experience an energy crisis but for me I
call it an energy crisis because it
wasn’t one of the extreme versions of
mental health illness that you hear
about so often I wasn’t suicidal I
wasn’t depressed I wasn’t anxious I was
just incredibly depleted and so I’ve
called that an energy crisis and the
things which were there’s warning signs
for that energy crisis I call energy
crisis indicators or eesti eyes now II
see eyes are a lot like there are a lot
like HD eyes all right
you think about HP is there a bit nasty
all right they could sneak up on you
they often go undetected see you’re all
a little bit squeamish now this guy’s
might be striking a bit close to home
wouldn’t know about that myself
but EC eyes really are infecting many of
us in fact it’s highly likely that
you’re infected and so I want to share
with you seven EC eyes for you to be
aware of and just start to tick these
off hopefully you’re only going to tick
off a couple but statistically you will
have multiple EC eyes the first will be
physically unhappy right and this is not
about being a supermodel or being a
triathlete it’s just about your body not
feeling like it’s in best working order
the second be you might be feeling
unfulfilled you’re waking up in the
morning you’re just not really excited
about what you’re going to do that day
the third can be lacking direction
there’s so many options that you have
but where do you start
alright if you’re feeling depleted
everything can feel very overwhelming
the fourth is negative self-talk the
things that you’ll be saying to yourself
that you would never say to another
person but you’ll save yourself quite
lava loudly and quite often you’ll be
waking up tithe saying the day already
feeling like you’re behind that there
sleep didn’t matter you stressing at the
small stuff like you really really
pissed off when someone doesn’t change
the toner and the photocopier or your
favorite breast is not there in the
morning and the final one you might be
feeling isolated just connected for me
this was massive
I felt very alone going through this and
a very high-profile role I was the
responsible for a nine billion dollar
brand I owe 25 million dollar year
marketing budget there’s no way I could
go back to work and say guess what it’s
just wandering around David
we have no idea how I got there so what
happens when these things get left
unchecked because these are energy
vampires on us they’re sucking the life
out of us
so what happens if they go unchecked we
end up feeling unwell we have a huge
amount of unwellness and when these
become community issues we start to see
some which is actually very very
worrying and that is an epidemic of
epidemics Australia right now is
experiencing an epidemic of epidemics an
epidemic of our wellness we’re
physically unwell with epidemics of
obesity and sleep deprivation we’re
mentally unwell eight people killing
themselves every day huge amounts of
stress impacting us with over 35% of the
population
experiencing significant amounts of
distress we’re emotionally unwell when
we look at the most dysfunctional
versions of our relationships who have
epidemics of domestic violence and child
abuse one woman killed a week over 5,000
call-outs for domestic violence every
week 1 million children witnessing this
and finally we’re spiritually unwell
this chronic lack of fulfillment so many
of us question why we do what we do and
not loving what we do at all look
equally shocking part of all of us is
the cost to the economy is 266 billion
dollars a year or 16% of the Australian
economy imagine what we could achieve if
that money was spent elsewhere we are
facing our human energy crisis and we
need to start to ask ourselves why this
exists why are we so and well because
when you think about it we’ve actually
got more information than we’ve ever had
at any other point in human history
about how to be well about how to be
energized and yet we’re not
so where do we start well the place we
start is by looking at the definition of
wellness is Darwin wellness has three
components to it
the first is that it’s preventative it’s
about preventing illness in the first
place
stopping it from happening the second is
that it takes fit
you cannot buy wellness you can buy buy
happiness we actually have to do stuff
to be well and the third is there has to
be holistic so it needs to look at all
of us needs to look our physical health
our spiritual health our emotional
health and our mental health all
together now the so listed thought was
saying there was very relevant to me in
my situation because this was me back in
the day so I spent 16 years in the
fitness industry teaching all over the
world if anyone’s got a Michelle Bridges
DVD I’m all four of them they might have
been in your lounge room already so I
should have known how to keep myself
well I’d spent 16 years of my career in
this industry but what I realized was
that my knowledge was incomplete
it was very focused on the physical
aspects of wellness and less so on the
others and so I really need to work out
what did I what didn’t I know why did I
ended up in David Jones and it all
started with a conversation with a
stranger around one single thought that
stranger was a man called Kemal sama
you might know him he was just talking
and up to me that day about managing my
energy and not my time
and for me that just makes so much sense
with my background and fitness it was
all about energy I knew how to energize
people and you know how to create that
so how how could I do that for myself
energy is such a simple concept –
because energy is intuitive tool I can
ask you immediately after you’ve had any
experience right whether that was going
to the bank it’s been easy some time
with your friends having a meal or just
sitting quietly with your thoughts and
if I ask you did that experience
energize you or deplete you you’ll just
know won’t know why but you’ll just know
that it was one of those two things very
really in the middle so what we need to
do is turn their energy their intuition
into intelligence right to understand
why things impact us the way we do so
that we can make better decisions
because ultimately it’s the quantity and
quality of energy that we have in our
lives that will determine our success we
can’t achieve stuff that we don’t have
energy or
so want you just to think about what
matters to you what would you like
energy for it’s going to come back to
that quantity equality about how
successful you feel about the stuff that
matters to you without your family your
relationships your job the community
you’re going to need energy for that but
in order to do that of course you have
to save yourself first all right we
can’t give energy that we don’t have and
therefore how do we increase our own
quantity and quality of energy well the
way that we do that is by developing a
skill that I call energy intelligence or
X IQ now energy intelligence X IQ is a
skill just like any other skill if
you’re going to learn to surf you’d need
to know where to put your feet on the
board you know do it where your center
of gravity is what time to catch the
wave when to stand up alright you need
to know what to do first once you know
what to do then you write over and over
again falling off being judged by the
other surfers out there practicing over
over again until you get good at
standing up when you’re good at standing
up then you can do all sorts of tricks
all right and importantly you can teach
other people how to stand up so we think
about using intelligence X like you the
same way and in doing that what we’re
doing is making wellness practical
teaching the skill of how to be well
because the reason we’re in this place
is that we’ve never been taught how to
be well now X IQ has four components to
it for strengths
the first is fuel we’re energized when
we conscious of foods of exercise of
sleep and how we recover right and we
have the most influence over those
things we can choose how we feed
ourselves what time we go to bed unless
you’ve got little kids that can be a
little bit of a challenge right whether
you go outside for a walk you can
influence those cells without fuel there
can
you know fire fires what really likes us
up all right it’s really getting out of
bed and knowing that you’re using your
strengths that day towards something
that’s meaningful to you whether that’s
humble or huge what Stokes your fire is
feeling feeling is about our
relationship with ourselves
we’re energized we we have a
compassionate loving generous
relationship with ourselves and that is
the basis for having healthy energizing
relationships with others and the final
energy intelligence strength is focus
because in order to create more energy
we need to know where to make decisions
alright so focus is how you create space
for fuel for fire and for feeling that
adds the most value to your life whilst
you remove the energy vampires so how do
you get to know your ex iq well our
research and our data is showing I can I
can tell you right now we you probably
sit in on average alright so from the
data that we’ve collected this is where
Australian sets we ask them two versions
of a question the first is where are you
today the second is where would you like
to be so it’s about closing that gap
this is where we’re at today versus
where we’d like to be we’re at 65% of
fuel 76 in terms of fire 67 and probably
tellingly because we don’t really know
what to do next 53 when it comes to
focus what that means in total is that
we have 65% of the energy that we would
like to have
so how do we close that gap imagine what
that would be like if you close that gap
when you think about matters to you what
would you achieve personally and what
would be achieved collectively to change
those epidemics that we’re experiencing
today so developing your executors very
simple as I said it’s a skill just like
learning to serve and what we’ve seen is
because it’s so practical in our pilot
programs we’ve seen people increase the
energy by 30 percent in as little as six
weeks imagine waking up tomorrow with
thirty percent more energy how would you
be experienced what would you achieve
how would you feel the other thing we’ve
discovered is the people that get the
greatest results and words quickly are
doing something that we call life
hacking because the highest score we’ve
got so far is a hundred and thirty four
percent that one was really geeking out
on energy intelligence so life hacking
is as simple as combining two other ifs
or three of the S or four of the X into
one experience and something really
magical happens when you do all four
when you combine all four of those
energy intelligence strengths there’s
one word that people use and that word
is joy who doesn’t want more joy in
their lives
yeah so are you up for doing some life
hacking right now yes I sure are you out
for denson life hacking right now all
right all right we’re we’re going to
combine a couple three of the ears right
now all right
it’s very quickly we can lift your
personal and collective energy in this
room with it one simple act I need you
to stand up
what we’re going to do is we’re going to
combine fuel feeling and focus we’re
going to do a practice and pull it of
practice because science shows us that
our brains like magnets for the negative
but Teflon for the positive right so we
have to practice this stuff we’re going
to start by practicing gratitude so I
want you to think about something that
you’re grateful for it’s scientifically
impossible to fill any of those
anxieties or fears or sadness of we’re
practicing gratitude think about
something that you’re grateful for right
now now just notice where that feeling
is in your body right breathe into it
let it expand a little bit just let your
arms come down all right keep breathing
into that feeling and I want you to just
move your right folder shoulder forwards
and just twist a little bit and your
left shoulder and your right shoulder
keep that feeling you’re right and a
little bit faster a little bit faster a
little bit faster a little bit faster
all right here we go all right so we
just lifted our personal collective
energy in literally 10 seconds
by doing shimmy a day and this is what I
want you to take away today is finish
your day thinking about the things that
make you shimmy alright it might be a
little shimmy her big shimmy right the
shipment of this big it makes your voice
funny all right that finished your day
that way is a great way to start to
build your energy intelligence thank you
up here it’s a department store that’s
on the corner of castle Rey streets and
Market Street in the city you might know
it’s pretty famous to store called David
Jones in July 2011 I found myself in the
few Fisheries Department of the menswear
section in David Jones but I had no idea
how I got there for other customers that
were walking around they might have
thought I looked a little bit dazed and
confused but on the inside I was feeling
all sorts of crazy
what snapped me out of it was a phone
call and I don’t remember the content of
that phone call but what I do remember
is how I felt
well it’s physically shaking my voice
was all over the place and still very
grateful for the fact that I was wearing
clothes at least I did something right
that morning but where I started to
realize is how did I get to this place
because I didn’t just wake up one
morning and feel this way and it’s the
closest I can imagine that someone feels
when they’re coming on the verge of a
nervous breakdown and so I started to
look back and think how did I end up
here what were the indicators and what
I’ve come to discover I’ve called this
experience an energy crisis but for me I
call it an energy crisis because it
wasn’t one of the extreme versions of
mental health illness that you hear
about so often I wasn’t suicidal I
wasn’t depressed I wasn’t anxious I was
just incredibly depleted and so I’ve
called that an energy crisis and the
things which were there’s warning signs
for that energy crisis I call energy
crisis indicators or eesti eyes now II
see eyes are a lot like there are a lot
like HD eyes all right
you think about HP is there a bit nasty
all right they could sneak up on you
they often go undetected see you’re all
a little bit squeamish now this guy’s
might be striking a bit close to home
wouldn’t know about that myself
but EC eyes really are infecting many of
us in fact it’s highly likely that
you’re infected and so I want to share
with you seven EC eyes for you to be
aware of and just start to tick these
off hopefully you’re only going to tick
off a couple but statistically you will
have multiple EC eyes the first will be
physically unhappy right and this is not
about being a supermodel or being a
triathlete it’s just about your body not
feeling like it’s in best working order
the second be you might be feeling
unfulfilled you’re waking up in the
morning you’re just not really excited
about what you’re going to do that day
the third can be lacking direction
there’s so many options that you have
but where do you start
alright if you’re feeling depleted
everything can feel very overwhelming
the fourth is negative self-talk the
things that you’ll be saying to yourself
that you would never say to another
person but you’ll save yourself quite
lava loudly and quite often you’ll be
waking up tithe saying the day already
feeling like you’re behind that there
sleep didn’t matter you stressing at the
small stuff like you really really
pissed off when someone doesn’t change
the toner and the photocopier or your
favorite breast is not there in the
morning and the final one you might be
feeling isolated just connected for me
this was massive
I felt very alone going through this and
a very high-profile role I was the
responsible for a nine billion dollar
brand I owe 25 million dollar year
marketing budget there’s no way I could
go back to work and say guess what it’s
just wandering around David
we have no idea how I got there so what
happens when these things get left
unchecked because these are energy
vampires on us they’re sucking the life
out of us
so what happens if they go unchecked we
end up feeling unwell we have a huge
amount of unwellness and when these
become community issues we start to see
some which is actually very very
worrying and that is an epidemic of
epidemics Australia right now is
experiencing an epidemic of epidemics an
epidemic of our wellness we’re
physically unwell with epidemics of
obesity and sleep deprivation we’re
mentally unwell eight people killing
themselves every day huge amounts of
stress impacting us with over 35% of the
population
experiencing significant amounts of
distress we’re emotionally unwell when
we look at the most dysfunctional
versions of our relationships who have
epidemics of domestic violence and child
abuse one woman killed a week over 5,000
call-outs for domestic violence every
week 1 million children witnessing this
and finally we’re spiritually unwell
this chronic lack of fulfillment so many
of us question why we do what we do and
not loving what we do at all look
equally shocking part of all of us is
the cost to the economy is 266 billion
dollars a year or 16% of the Australian
economy imagine what we could achieve if
that money was spent elsewhere we are
facing our human energy crisis and we
need to start to ask ourselves why this
exists why are we so and well because
when you think about it we’ve actually
got more information than we’ve ever had
at any other point in human history
about how to be well about how to be
energized and yet we’re not
so where do we start well the place we
start is by looking at the definition of
wellness is Darwin wellness has three
components to it
the first is that it’s preventative it’s
about preventing illness in the first
place
stopping it from happening the second is
that it takes fit
you cannot buy wellness you can buy buy
happiness we actually have to do stuff
to be well and the third is there has to
be holistic so it needs to look at all
of us needs to look our physical health
our spiritual health our emotional
health and our mental health all
together now the so listed thought was
saying there was very relevant to me in
my situation because this was me back in
the day so I spent 16 years in the
fitness industry teaching all over the
world if anyone’s got a Michelle Bridges
DVD I’m all four of them they might have
been in your lounge room already so I
should have known how to keep myself
well I’d spent 16 years of my career in
this industry but what I realized was
that my knowledge was incomplete
it was very focused on the physical
aspects of wellness and less so on the
others and so I really need to work out
what did I what didn’t I know why did I
ended up in David Jones and it all
started with a conversation with a
stranger around one single thought that
stranger was a man called Kemal sama
you might know him he was just talking
and up to me that day about managing my
energy and not my time
and for me that just makes so much sense
with my background and fitness it was
all about energy I knew how to energize
people and you know how to create that
so how how could I do that for myself
energy is such a simple concept –
because energy is intuitive tool I can
ask you immediately after you’ve had any
experience right whether that was going
to the bank it’s been easy some time
with your friends having a meal or just
sitting quietly with your thoughts and
if I ask you did that experience
energize you or deplete you you’ll just
know won’t know why but you’ll just know
that it was one of those two things very
really in the middle so what we need to
do is turn their energy their intuition
into intelligence right to understand
why things impact us the way we do so
that we can make better decisions
because ultimately it’s the quantity and
quality of energy that we have in our
lives that will determine our success we
can’t achieve stuff that we don’t have
energy or
so want you just to think about what
matters to you what would you like
energy for it’s going to come back to
that quantity equality about how
successful you feel about the stuff that
matters to you without your family your
relationships your job the community
you’re going to need energy for that but
in order to do that of course you have
to save yourself first all right we
can’t give energy that we don’t have and
therefore how do we increase our own
quantity and quality of energy well the
way that we do that is by developing a
skill that I call energy intelligence or
X IQ now energy intelligence X IQ is a
skill just like any other skill if
you’re going to learn to surf you’d need
to know where to put your feet on the
board you know do it where your center
of gravity is what time to catch the
wave when to stand up alright you need
to know what to do first once you know
what to do then you write over and over
again falling off being judged by the
other surfers out there practicing over
over again until you get good at
standing up when you’re good at standing
up then you can do all sorts of tricks
all right and importantly you can teach
other people how to stand up so we think
about using intelligence X like you the
same way and in doing that what we’re
doing is making wellness practical
teaching the skill of how to be well
because the reason we’re in this place
is that we’ve never been taught how to
be well now X IQ has four components to
it for strengths
the first is fuel we’re energized when
we conscious of foods of exercise of
sleep and how we recover right and we
have the most influence over those
things we can choose how we feed
ourselves what time we go to bed unless
you’ve got little kids that can be a
little bit of a challenge right whether
you go outside for a walk you can
influence those cells without fuel there
can
you know fire fires what really likes us
up all right it’s really getting out of
bed and knowing that you’re using your
strengths that day towards something
that’s meaningful to you whether that’s
humble or huge what Stokes your fire is
feeling feeling is about our
relationship with ourselves
we’re energized we we have a
compassionate loving generous
relationship with ourselves and that is
the basis for having healthy energizing
relationships with others and the final
energy intelligence strength is focus
because in order to create more energy
we need to know where to make decisions
alright so focus is how you create space
for fuel for fire and for feeling that
adds the most value to your life whilst
you remove the energy vampires so how do
you get to know your ex iq well our
research and our data is showing I can I
can tell you right now we you probably
sit in on average alright so from the
data that we’ve collected this is where
Australian sets we ask them two versions
of a question the first is where are you
today the second is where would you like
to be so it’s about closing that gap
this is where we’re at today versus
where we’d like to be we’re at 65% of
fuel 76 in terms of fire 67 and probably
tellingly because we don’t really know
what to do next 53 when it comes to
focus what that means in total is that
we have 65% of the energy that we would
like to have
so how do we close that gap imagine what
that would be like if you close that gap
when you think about matters to you what
would you achieve personally and what
would be achieved collectively to change
those epidemics that we’re experiencing
today so developing your executors very
simple as I said it’s a skill just like
learning to serve and what we’ve seen is
because it’s so practical in our pilot
programs we’ve seen people increase the
energy by 30 percent in as little as six
weeks imagine waking up tomorrow with
thirty percent more energy how would you
be experienced what would you achieve
how would you feel the other thing we’ve
discovered is the people that get the
greatest results and words quickly are
doing something that we call life
hacking because the highest score we’ve
got so far is a hundred and thirty four
percent that one was really geeking out
on energy intelligence so life hacking
is as simple as combining two other ifs
or three of the S or four of the X into
one experience and something really
magical happens when you do all four
when you combine all four of those
energy intelligence strengths there’s
one word that people use and that word
is joy who doesn’t want more joy in
their lives
yeah so are you up for doing some life
hacking right now yes I sure are you out
for denson life hacking right now all
right all right we’re we’re going to
combine a couple three of the ears right
now all right
it’s very quickly we can lift your
personal and collective energy in this
room with it one simple act I need you
to stand up
what we’re going to do is we’re going to
combine fuel feeling and focus we’re
going to do a practice and pull it of
practice because science shows us that
our brains like magnets for the negative
but Teflon for the positive right so we
have to practice this stuff we’re going
to start by practicing gratitude so I
want you to think about something that
you’re grateful for it’s scientifically
impossible to fill any of those
anxieties or fears or sadness of we’re
practicing gratitude think about
something that you’re grateful for right
now now just notice where that feeling
is in your body right breathe into it
let it expand a little bit just let your
arms come down all right keep breathing
into that feeling and I want you to just
move your right folder shoulder forwards
and just twist a little bit and your
left shoulder and your right shoulder
keep that feeling you’re right and a
little bit faster a little bit faster a
little bit faster a little bit faster
all right here we go all right so we
just lifted our personal collective
energy in literally 10 seconds
by doing shimmy a day and this is what I
want you to take away today is finish
your day thinking about the things that
make you shimmy alright it might be a
little shimmy her big shimmy right the
shipment of this big it makes your voice
funny all right that finished your day
that way is a great way to start to
build your energy intelligence thank you
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