Wellness Tool: My Battery

Recharge Your Energy, Protect Your Wellness

A simple but powerful activity that gives you clarity, helping you to recognise what truly matters, what replenishes you, and what takes away from your wellbeing.

By completing this exercise, you'll stop pouring energy into the things that leave you feeling depleted and start focusing more intentionally on the people, activities, and choices that help you feel healthier, happier, and more resilient.

You’ll create a visual map of your personal battery:

What fills it up.
What drains it.
What you need to operate at your best.

This tool can be used in any context — whether you’re thinking about your home life, work, family dynamics, a particular event, a stressful period, making changes, or facing challenges.

By the end, you’ll have fresh insight into where your energy goes, and a clear starting point for making small, positive changes that will strengthen your wellness and sense of balance.

Step 1

Draw a battery in the centre of the page.

Step 2

Add words or phrases that capture what you need to operate at their best in the centre of the battery.

Step 3

Draw arrows from the bottom of the batter to represent what drains you and add labels.

Step 4

Draw arrows at the top to represent things that fills the battery.

Step 5

What insights has completing this activity given you?
Can you reduce or eliminate any of your drainers?
Can you increase any of your replenishers?
Are there other things that could be replenishing?
What small change can you make now as a result of this activity?
What boundaries could be put in place to reduce your drainers?

An example My Battery about feeling emotionally well during the week.

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References

Elizabeth Crosse - page 197 in Coaching Tools: 101 Coaching Tools and Techniques for Executive Coaches, Team Coaches, Mentors, and Supervisors: WeCoach Volume 1, Passmore et al. 2021.
Vansteenkiste & Soenens (2002), Basic Psychological Need Theory: Advancements, Critical Themes, and Future Directions. Motivation and Emotion, 44, 1-13