Summary
This video discusses taking inventory of personal energy and treating yourself as a “human power plant.” Mike connects learning about energy to growing up near the Susquehanna River and the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, then explains that energy can be low mentally, emotionally, physically, or spiritually. They recommend an energy audit by reviewing your calendar over a chosen timeframe and color coding events green for charged, yellow for neutral, and red for draining, optionally noting revenue with a dollar sign. They also suggest rating your daily energy from 1 to 10 and identifying what drains or charges you, emphasizing that energy management can be simple and focused on what you consume and how you show up.
Energy Audit: How to Assess What Drains or Charges You Up
1. Core idea: you can create energy 0:33
Simple premise: you are a human power plant.
Energy isn’t just something you wait to have; you can create it when you need it.
The point is to stop treating energy as mysterious and start treating it as something you can observe and influence.
2. Notice that energy can be low for different reasons 0:54
Low energy can come from several places:
Mental fatigue
Emotional fatigue
Physical fatigue
Spiritual fatigue
The goal is not to judge the cause, but to acknowledge it and get honest about your current state.
3. Do an energy audit of your recent calendar 1:19
Review your calendar for the last week, two weeks, or month—whatever time frame is most useful.
Try a simple energy audit to identify patterns.
If you already keep a calendar, use it as your source of truth. If not, this is a clue that you may be leaking energy through poor visibility and planning.
4. Color-code each event by how it affected you 1:37
Go through each calendar entry and label it:
Green = charged you up
Yellow = neutral
Red = drained you
This makes it easy to see which activities are helping versus hurting your energy.
If you’re a founder, business leader, seller, or high achiever, you can also mark whether an activity generated revenue with a dollar sign.
5. Use the audit to decide what to keep or cut 2:13
Once you know what drains you and what produces value, you can make better decisions.
If something drains you and doesn’t create revenue or meaningful value, it may need to be eliminated.
First comes the assessment; action comes after you understand the pattern.
6. Rate your daily energy on a simple scale 2:30
Start each day by rating your energy from 1 to 10.
Use the score to ask:
What gave me this number?
What drained me?
What charged me up?
Keep this simple, don’t overcomplicate it.
7. Identify what creates or drains energy in your life 2:51
If you don’t have enough energy, ask how you might create more.
The Loom points to several inputs that affect energy:
Food you consume
Content you take in through your eyes and ears
The environments and experiences you expose yourself to
The idea is to become more intentional about what you let into your system.
8. Pay attention to the energy you bring into a room 3:13
Energy isn’t only internal; it also affects other people.
Ask yourself:
Do I bring a positive force or a negative force?
Are my thoughts generally positive or negative?
This is not about fake positivity or “toxic positivity.” It’s about genuine, felt energy that others can sense.
9. Be aware of other people’s energy too 3:55
People show up with different energy levels.
Some come in low, negative, or heavy.
Others may seem calm, cool, or quietly energized.
The key is to notice both your own energy and the energy of the people you interact with, whether that’s in person, on a call, or on screen.
10. Take inventory now and prepare for the next topic 4:08
The immediate action item is to do the work:
Take inventory of your energy
Review your patterns
Notice what aligns with your goals
Next topic: what you aspire to be and how aligned you are with that aspiration.
