Meaghan B. Murphy - The Fully Charged Life: A Radically Simple Approach to Having Endless Energy and Filling Every Day with Yay

If you want more energy and focus, read this book now. Youll find simple, science-backed ways to feel better so you can achieve what matters most, while always staying true to who you are.

Marie Forleo, New York Times bestselling author of Everything Is Figureoutable

Meaghan feels like the best friend youve always wanted. Shes the positive, Energizer Bunny, confident ally pushing you to do better because she knows you can. Her words and this book will inspire you to be the best version of yourself. You will hear her message in your head, pushing you, believing in you until ultimately youre doing it yourself. Magic!

Kate T. Parker, New York Times bestselling author and photographer

As someone whos mildly obsessed with energy management, I found this book to be a refreshing and practical blend of fascinating research and inspiring lived experience. If you want to feel more lit up by your life, look no further!

Kate Northrup, bestselling author of Do Less

In these frenzied and frantic times, its more important than ever to tune in to what matters most. Meaghan Murphys book will show you how, by empowering you to tap in to your source of strengthwhether its faith, family or simply making the most of every single day. Tune in to her book and discover new ways to get and stay fully charged!

Paula Faris, journalist, podcaster and author

Meaghan Murphys Your Fully Charged Life is a welcome guide in trying times. These inspiring ideas are encouraging and enlightening, and Meaghan graciously takes you by the hand to show you that it is never too late to make every day count.

Joan Lunden, award-winning journalist and author

Meaghan has a wonderful way of writing that is very easy on the eyes. Your Fully Charged Life reads like were having a glass of wine and shes telling me her story. Well done!

Laurie Gelman, bestselling author of Class Mom and Youve Been Volunteered

Your Fully Charged Life is a road map to a leveled-up life on all fronts. I love how Meaghans simple yet effective way of showing how to Live Fully Charged is as tactical as it is entertaining. Her spark for life is contagious and is exactly what is needed right now with so much negativity, stress and anxiety in the world. YFCL reminds us to find the YAY in each day. This book is a must-read for anyone looking to level up, live with more joy and create more energy!

Brandon Farbstein, global empowerment speaker and Gen Z activist

Your Fully Charged Life is exactly what women need in crisis and beyond to untangle the realities of a world where everything collidespersonal goals, work, family and more. Meaghan lays out the groundwork for women to recognize and move beyond the day-to-day challenges to finding fulfillment, joy and happiness in a meaningful and exciting way.

Blessing Adesiyan, founder & CEO of Mother Honestly

Ive always said I wish we could bottle Meaghans positive energy and now we canYour Fully Charged Life is that secret Meaghan sauce in book form. You are in for a treat!

Karena Dawn, cofounder of Tone It Up and bestselling author of Tone It Up: Balanced and Beautiful

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Names: Murphy, Meaghan B, author. | OKeefe, Beth Janes, author.

Title: Your fully charged life: a radically simple approach to having endless energy and filling every day with yay / Meaghan B Murphy; with Beth Janes OKeefe.

Description: New York: TarcherPerigee, 2021.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020024978 (print) | LCCN 2020024979 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593188576 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593188583 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Self-actualization (Psychology)

Classification: LCC BF637.S4 M877 2021 (print) | LCC BF637.S4 (ebook) | DDC 158.1dc23

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For Pop, my cardinal

From a tiny spark may burst a mighty flame.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Paradiso

INTRODUCTION

Lightning Bolts

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

MAYA ANGELOU

Grumpy. That was my nickname as a kid. I earned it by being the type of sulky girl who always expected the worst. I remember thinking my mom would for sure be late picking me up. Or that whatever game was starting would for sure be boring and Id lose. In the third grade, when my family started planning a trip to Disney World, I didnt want to go. Really. Why would I? There would inevitably be long lines and it would be hot, and no thank you lets just stay home. In the fifth grade, when my class wrote and performed a play called The Key to Understanding, I created a character in my own likeness: Neggy, the embodiment of negativity. At some point after that my parents gave me a necklace with a gold charm of Grumpy, the dwarf from Snow White, standing in all his grouchy glory, arms crossed, mouth turned down. I wore it or just a matching sourpuss until my late teens.

Now in my forties, I still have that necklace, but its as if it belongs to someone else. In a way, it does. Over the last twenty years or so, Ive been called a lot of thingsnever ever grumpy. These days, my friends joke that I fart rainbows. The necklaces I wear have charms of lightning boltsa symbol of energy I adopted a few years ago as my own personal logoand say words like yay. The rest of my wardrobe is best described as extroverted; I love bright colors and emoji-esque patterns because they make me and others smile and they spark conversations.

When it comes to chitchat, I dont just talk about what I find interesting or cool, I tend to