Increasing Your Wellness With This Easy Stress and Energy Tracker Solution
We are all stressed and feeling anxious right now and one of the most practical things that you can do to get a handle on the situation and help you to focus on the things that you can control is by creating a simple tracker system to monitor the most important aspects of your wellness right now.
One of the most impactful takeaways I got from Tony Robbins at the power of success seminar that I attended was how beneficial tracking your energy levels can be to sustain a higher level of performance - regardless of what that means to you.
Habits trackers are the simplest way to do that and while you can create a digital table or use an app, like a Fitbit or Oura ring to track some of the metrics, writing it down on paper or in a journal seems to be the most effective way of visually portraying this and truly understanding what the trends mean for you.
A simple tracker, like the one that I've included as a bonus download in the wellness challenge week, can allow you to write the number associated with your subjective feelings each day.
In the image below you'll see how I visually represent these details on an X- and Y-axis. Daily I track my energy level with a dot or bullet and my subjective sleep quality with an open circle. I'm also adding in a subjective stress level with a different symbol.
What I want you to do is create a similar tracker for yourself.
You can print off the tracker from the wellness course, or create your own in a journal or even on a scrap piece of paper.
If you're drawing it out for yourself, create the graph that is more visual than just the boxes from the habit tracker template.
-Draw or mark out space for ten lines.
-Each day give yourself a score from 1 - 10 for the following:
Your energy level - how ready are you to perform at your best? 10 would be unstoppable.
Your sleep - 10 would be the perfect amount of sleep for your needs and waking up feeling refreshed.
Your stress level - 10 being the absolute worst you’ve ever felt.
I find that I will personally record sleep in the morning but save energy and stress levels for at least a few hours later once I have had some time to wake up. You can even do these much later after you've had some time to reflect on how well you performed today.
Nobody seeking flow and peak performance, or even just stress-free living in our current circumstances wants to live a life that's always a 6 or 7 out of 10, just as you wouldn’t go around bragging if you scored 60% on a test.
Making the stress tracker something visual like this works so well because it motivates you to want to find solutions.