From Burnout to Bold Impact: Why Energy Management Beats Time Management

By Helene Segura | December 17, 2025 |

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Unlock the real secret to productivity and burnout prevention in this powerful conversation I had with leadership strategist Beverly Flores in the latest episode of my Time Management Revolution podcast. We explore why energy management, not time management, is the true key to performance, focus, and sustainable success.

You can watch our interview by clicking on the graphic below or read the highlights beneath it:

 

how energy management beats time management

 

Why Energy Management Beats Time Management

  • Time management alone doesn’t prevent burnout.
  • Energy-tracking exercise: identify what gives energy, what develops it, and what drains it.
  • Aim for 80% energy-giving activities and 20% energy-draining.
  • Managing energy leads to better time decisions and less procrastination.

The EEI Leadership Framework

  • Energy: who you are at your core; don’t shrink to fit in.
  • Enthusiasm: how you bring passion and purpose to life.
  • Intensity: where energy and enthusiasm meet to drive meaningful action.
  • EEI guides how Beverly leads, parents, and coaches.

People-First Leadership Lessons

  • Beverly shared handwritten notes with her children each time she traveled.
  • In leadership, she used personalized thank-you notes to show employees they mattered.
  • Effective recognition is specific and tailored to the individual.

How to Measure Your Own EEI

  • Connect with your spiritual foundation (nature, reading, journaling, quiet time, etc.).
  • Ask yourself: “How is my energy today? What do I need?”
  • Be honest about the answers — courage requires truth.

Practical Time Management Habits

  • Schedule your personal time just like any meeting.
  • Beverly protects her gym time and walking time — they are non-negotiable.
  • When you protect your energy, you show up better for others.

Releasing Guilt for Working Parents

  • Guilt and shame are low-energy emotions that drain you.
  • A powerful metaphor: stop serving everyone else’s plate first.
  • Prioritizing your needs allows you to be more present and energized for your family.

What a Leadership Strategist Really Does

  • Leadership is not a title — it’s how you manage your whole life.
  • Beverly helps clients evaluate where their time and energy go across personal, professional, mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing.

From Burnout to Alignment

  • Beverly lived high-achievement burnout during her 24-year Fortune 100 career and as a single parent.
  • Even with perfect time management, she felt misaligned with purpose.
  • Corporate restructuring gave her the courage to choose alignment over exhaustion.

 

 

Connect with Beverly Flores:

Website: https://thymeoutconsulting.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bevflores/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thyme_outconsulting/

Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553302392755

 

 

About Beverly Flores:

Beverly Flores is a keynote speaker, award-winning career and leadership strategist, and Founder of Thyme Out Consulting. A former Fortune 100 leader, she spent 24 years leading transformational initiatives at John Deere. Today, she helps high-achieving professionals and leaders move from burnout into energized, bold impact through her signature EEI System. Known for her authenticity and personal EEI, Beverly empowers others to lead and live with courage, align with purpose, and design lives they love.

 

For more recommendations on time management strategies for lowering your stress and improving focus, check out The Inefficiency Assassin: Time Management Tactics for Working Smarter, Not Longer.

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About Helene Segura

As The Inefficiency Assassin™, Time Management Fixer Helene Segura empowers professionals on the go with the tools to slay lost time. Personal inefficiency at work leads to increased stress levels, lower morale, higher absenteeism, more turnover – and rising spending on employee health care and hiring. Why not improve productivity, decrease stress levels, and increase profits instead?The author of four books – two of which were Amazon best-sellers – Helene Segura has been the featured organization expert in more than 200 media interviews. She has coached hundreds of clients to productivity success and performance improvement by applying neuroscience and behavioral modification techniques to wipe out destructive, time-wasting habits.Helene turns time management on its head by sharing both client case studies and pop culture examples to teach her mind-bending framework for decreasing interruptions, distractions and procrastination so that companies can spend more time generating revenue.

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