Create Your Own Energy
The ability to create your own energy is one of the most important skills in the world. Energy comes from two places: you create it from the inside or you catch it from the outside.
The ability to create your own energy is one of the most important skills in the world. Energy comes from two places: you create it from the inside or you catch it from the outside.
Your attitude, actions, and words make a difference. They affect your environment and the people in it. That’s why E+R=O is such a powerful tool, because it’s not just about you. Your response is deeply personal and never private.
Have you ever listened to someone complain and thought to yourself, “That was fun. I hope I get to hear them complain more” Nope. It’s a zero ROI activity. Your life and the life of everyone around you improves the moment you stop complaining. The best version of you is not a complainer.
People’s lives and futures rely on the actions of leaders. If you are in a position of leadership, becoming the best version of you is not only a responsibility, it is a mandate.
Choose to believe in yourself. Strengthen your resolve to understand who you are, what you are capable of doing, and why it matters. Strength requires work. Work requires practice. Practice takes time. Do the work.
People spend significant portions of their lives in one of two extremes: 1. vision without focus or 2. focus without vision. The first is too broad, resulting in unfulfilled dreams and constant disappointment. The second is too narrow, resulting in lack of direction and missed opportunities.
It is a leader’s job to create culture. It is a leader’s job to equip people with strategies and skills to compete and win. It is a leader’s job to earn trust worth following.
Life doesn’t owe you anything more than an opportunity. Which is exactly what you have. The rest is on you. If you want something, go earn it. If you deserve something, go prove it. You owe it to yourself.
Do you want something but repeatedly struggle to achieve it? Do you get distracted by daily life and disrupted by change? You’re not alone. But a smart quote and a good plan aren’t likely to help you. What you need is a better system.
Maybe, just maybe, the beliefs you hold and the things you think you know need to adjust. And in that adjustment, a transformation happens. Transformation can be triggered by something in your environment or something deep inside you. Often both. Maybe who you’ve been and how you’ve behaved was what you needed to get you…