Are you fully charged?

Here are highlights from Tom Rath's book Are You Fully Charged? The 3 Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life.

MEANING

1. Create meaning with small wins. Creating meaning for others matters more than pursuing happiness for yourself.
2. Pursue life, liberty and meaningfulness. Meaningful work is driven by deep, internal motivation.
3. Make work a purpose — not just a place. Your work should improve your overall well-being.
4. Find a higher calling than cash. Keep money from killing meaning for the sake of your well-being.
5. Ask what the world needs. You created meaning when your strengths and interests meet another person's needs.
6. Don't fall into default. Cast your own shadow by building your dreams into your job.
7. Initiate to shape the future. Instead of responding to every raging bull, focus on less to do more.
8. Focus for 45, break for 15. Work in bursts, take frequent breaks and keep the mission in mind.

INTERACTIONS

1. Make every interaction count. Our days depend on brief interactions with the people around us.
2. Be 80% positive. Focus most of your time and attention on what is working.
3. Start small and be clear. Practical goals and good questions create speed and productivity.
4. Take a break for relationships. Social networks that we often take for granted profoundly shape our lives.
5. Put experiences first. Spending on people and experiences yields the greatest return.
6. Avoid flying solo. We do better work when we collaborate and have shared incentives.
7. Build a cumulative advantage. The more you focus on another person's strengths, the faster they grow.

ENERGY

1. Put your own health first. When you eat, move and sleep well, you can do more for others.
2. Eat your way to a better day. Eating well starts with healthier defaults and decisions and with making every bite count.
3. Learn to walk before you run. Being active throughout the day matters most for your health and well-being. The more you move, the better your mood.
4. Sleep longer to achieve more. Every hour of sleep is an investment in your future, not an expense.
5. Eat, move and sleep to de-stress. Your daily actions can keep chronic stress from accumulating and doing more damage.
6. Respond with resiliency. Your reaction to a potential stressor is more important than the stressor itself.