Energy is what gives us the ability to exert effort. Energy taxation are things that deplete our energy.
Worry is the greatest taxer that saps us of our energy. It gives us the illusion that we are pre-planning. It’s when we use our imagination to create things that we don’t want to happen. Or, it’s when we try and solve a problem that we can’t solve or it’s not even a problem right now. Why worry? We must change our thinking style that creates worry. Let us eliminate all worry about what might go wrong and get excited about what will go right today. In every cooperative situation, people want two things: to get what they want and end on good terms without impairing the relationship in a negative way.
Great leaders are masters at this through skillful negotiation. They do it by leveraging their influence, active listening and emotion. Their timing is perfect by not interrupting or disagreeing. They pay attention, ask questions, assess, pause and interject just at the right time. This moves the discussion forward in a positive direction. Let us use harmonious negotiation to create win-win strategies today. Successful high achievers use competition to push themselves to be their best. It is an antidote to complacency, average and mediocrity.
If competition is used to beat someone else, we set ourselves up for envy and disappointment. Life isn’t a competition. It’s about serving and helping others grow and helping ourselves reach our full potential. Let us be in competition with only ourselves today and be better than we were yesterday. What do we love most about our lives? Answering this one question has the power to give us an instant boost in energy.
Chances are it’s the small things that money can’t buy. Like, being free to choose what we do today, being provided another chance to get things right, being surprised by the unexpected or just seeing the beauty of the sunrise. If we look at our day with gratitude - love and beauty will reveal itself. Let us look in the mirror and meet the love of our life today. What is our status symbol? Is it something we own or our level of education? Is it an indicator of wealth or social ranking? Is it an external meaning that shows a perceived value? Or is time, relationships or character?
Does it matter what our status symbols are if we don’t judge? If we don’t judge, status symbols shouldn’t matter. Should we not be the same person no matter who we are with or where we are? Let us reach the highest symbol of status with nothing to prove and no need to judge today. Raising the enthusiasm in any situation can be as easy as selecting high energy words.
It takes a higher level of skill to be positive, offer suggestions and talk about what is working well. It’s easier to complain, find fault and talk about what isn’t working. Low energy words suck the life out of people. High energy words turn the electrical enthusiasm power on. Great things happen with enthusiasm. It’s the key ingredient for success. Let us create a high energy environment so everyone around us is enthusiastic about the day. Our success is intrinsic.
t comes from within. It’s our private victories, and often, no one else even knows about them. It’s based on our emotions and how we internalize our personal success. It has nothing to do with anything extrinsic. Some of the richest and most extrinsically successful people are intrinsically unsuccessful. Success isn’t even measurable. All that matters is how successful we feel about something that is personally meaningful to us – and it may not be reflected extrinsically for a long time. Let us be intrinsically committed to our private victories today. Momentum is progress.
It demands movement. It’s a powerful push to help us finish what we start. Momentum alone contributes to 80% of our success. People that deliver are successful. Successful people sustain momentum. Highly successful people find ways to gain momentum. The more we succeed, the easier is to be successful and find more ways to continue being successful. Let us use our energy and enthusiasm to build momentum in everything we do today. How we treat anyone is how we treat everyone because everyone matters.
We may think we’ll never see someone again and they don’t matter. But, it’s impossible to know when our paths may cross again. All our actions add up. Everything we do initiates a sequence of actions. We don’t know how our actions may affect someone else. Life is a combination of every relationship, long or short, woven together. That determines how our life is revealed. Let us treat everyone that shows up in our path and know they matter today. Today is the beginning of a new deal: not a done deal.
Why be concerned with who we are when we know we are becoming better? We are what we are today but that doesn’t mean we are what we will be tomorrow. When we take responsibility for ourselves today, we become it. Life isn’t about getting more. It’s more about becoming more and being the best we can be today. To be what we can become only comes to an end when we draw our last breath. Let us become the person we are destined to be today. |
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