Extract from ‘Energize’ by Simon Alexander Ong
Your energy is everything: it is the fuel that drives your success, and it gives you the power to achieve your potential. So how can you be your best self if you’re always tired, stressed and burnt out? In his new book, Energize, award-winning life coach Simon Alexander-Ong introduces you to the art and science of energy management. In a world where we are always ‘on’, Ong coaches you to work with your natural energy resources to recognise your most energized state – when to push and when to recoup – so that you can work sustainably towards your biggest goals.
Here, Simon shares an extract from Energize to help us all feel empowered to spark the ‘energetic life force’ that lies inside us all…
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Simon Ong
You are the greatest project that you will ever get to work on, so make time for pursuing those things that spark a light in you and make you come alive.
You will live a better story by doing so.
You must be patient, however, because it often takes years before you arrive at that one year that will transform your life forever.
You’re going to face many challenges ahead, but I promise you that when you understand how to awaken, protect and nurture your personal energy, you will possess the wisdom to unearth the lessons behind every single one of them so that you may come back stronger.
I hope you find the courage to build a life around what matters most to you and follow through with what you know you must do. I hope you listen to that guide within and awaken the hero potential that resides in each one of us. I hope you discover the energy to come back stronger and allow your life to flourish in ways that make you want to pinch yourself.
Because one day, when you’re old and looking back on life, you’re going to wish you had.
You’re going to wish you had done things differently and you won’t be able to travel back in time to change things. But if you commit to making better choices from today, choices that will unlock source of energy that were in hibernation mode up until now, then you will not only put yourself on the path towards fulfilment, but you will also live a better story and it will be this story that will energize others and become your legacy.
So, you have a choice right now if you want to live a life of meaning: you can either do nothing and continue with how things are, hoping that life will get better, or you can do something about it and surprise yourself by demonstrating what’s possible when you ignite that energetic life force inside you. Because being in the beauty of energetic flow is being connected to the truth of who you are and what you bring into this world.
If you choose the latter, then get ready for the greatest adventure of your life because you will finally step out of the shadows and into the light to become the hero that you have been waiting for.
It won’t be easy, but when you look back and witness your life evolving in the most beautiful of ways, not only will it bring a sense of fulfilment, but that future self will be thankful for the decisions that you chose to make today. Life is meant to be lived, felt and experienced. Don’t miss your time while you still have an abundance of it.
We are energetic beings having a human experience, and energy is the key that unlocks opportunities, the magnet that attracts abundance and the fuel that powers us to extraordinary heights. It’s a form of power: what you give energy to, you give life to. Use this precious asset of yours wisely and you will create more of it, and the more energy you have, the more the universe will appear to bend and shift in your favour.
Simon Alexander Ong is a personal development entrepreneur, coach and public speaker. His clients are from all walks of life but they share one trait; they all believe that the greatest investment you can make is in yourself. His work has seen him invited onto Sky News and BBC Radio London to be interviewed, while Barclays UK featured him in a nationwide campaign asking him questions on how families could embrace better lifestyle habits.
His insights have seen him featured in HuffPost, Forbes, Virgin and the Guardian. He also regularly speaks at organisations (these have included Salesforce, Microsoft, E&Y, Adobe and Unilever) and keynotes public events and conferences. His debut book Energize was published by Penguin in April 2022 and received endorsements from the likes of New York Times bestselling authors Simon Sinek, Marie Forleo and Dr Marshall Goldsmith.
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