How to get your energy back without overhauling your life

** Grab tickets for The Energy Game Melbourne launch (29 July, 6:30pm) here and order The Energy Game book here.**  If you're someone who keeps saying yes when you should say no, or who has never once thought of rest as a skill worth building, this conversation will give you a starting point that doesn't require overhauling your life.  This is part two of a two-part crossover with the This Is Work podcast, hosted by Shelley Johnson. In this episode, Shelley and I go deep into the science-backed strategies from my new book, The Energy Game, covering all three categories: boost strategies that take less than five minutes, rest strategies that are genuinely restorative (not just fake rest on the couch), and protect strategies that stop your energy leaking in the first place.  Because knowing you're burning out is one thing. Knowing what to actually do about it is another.  Shelley and I discuss:  A surprisingly simple post-meal habit that stabilises your energy for hours  Why the thing most of us do to wind down at night is not actually rest  The acupressure technique from cancer recovery research that changed how I think about fatigue  What happened to my creativity when I stopped filling every quiet moment with podcasts  The tapping technique I used to conquer a phobia, and why it works for stress too  A three-question filter for deciding what to say yes to, inspired by Adam Grant  The worst speaking gig of my life, and the list I started that night  Key quotes  "Have you ever woken up in the morning and thought, '