Omar Usman – 3 Lessons From The Energy Bus Jon Gordon

Hey, guys. Omar Usman here. Today I'm sharing

3 things I learned from reading The Energy

Bus by John Gordon. This book is a

parable about approaching life and work with positive

energy. Now a lot of times that might

get seen as like this rah rah cheerleading

kind of thing but there's a lot a

lot of good lessons to be had. The

first is that you choose how to drive

your bus. Now this is an analogy.

It's you're in charge of your bus. You're

in charge of the destination, where it goes,

who you let on, who you let off.

But how you drive your bus is in

is in your control. Now, the example that

he's making here is that things are going

to happen, everybody. Stuff happens. Adversity happens. We

go through difficult times.

In order to have positive energy about going

through adversity,

you have to decide how you respond to

it. Now, we don't control the things that

happen to us sometimes but we do control

our response to them. So when adversity strikes,

we can choose to be negative. We can

choose to let it let it bog us

down or we can choose to go through

it, make an excuse to do meaningful work

and find purpose and meaning in what we

do. Sometimes, and we also have to recognize

that sometimes, adversity is what is needed to

make us change.

We can't control what happens to us, but

we can take responsibility in how we perceive

it and in changing the actions that affect

the outcomes from it. The second lesson is

that your positivity

has to be more than others' negativity.

No matter what you do, no matter what

path you're going down, the more that you

achieve, succeed, or even try to do something,

the more that you'll get negative criticism from

people. And you have to recognize that a

lot of times this criticism,

it's a way for people to mask the

fact that they're not achieving what they want

to do and so they project their own

shortcomings and weaknesses onto you. It is difficult

though sometimes to hear that constant stream of

negative feedback. So you have a choice. Do

you let these people on your bus or

do you kick them off the bus? And

in a lot of cases, you have to

find ways to shut those negative voices out

and making and keep You have to find

a way to cut those negative voices out.

Keep moving forward and make sure that you're

guided by the vision and purpose of what

you're doing. The third lesson is that energy

is everything. Energy is affected by multiple things.

Your sleep, your eating habits, the things that

you read, the things that you listen to,

the people that you're around.

One thing that John talks about in the

book are energy vampires. These are negative people

that suck the energy out of you. They're

people that when you walk into a room,

you can feel the toxicity. You don't wanna

be around them. You just wanna get out.

You don't feel like working. You lose your

motivation.

You have to make sure, first of all,

that you're not the type you're not a

vampire that's sucking the energy out of other

people but you've also got to make sure

that you don't let them do the same

thing to you. Being positive requires a certain

amount of intentionality.

See, if we let things go by default

and we don't make any effort,

negativity fills that void by default. So in

order to make sure that we don't let

that negativity overcome us, we have to make

sure that when negative things happen or we're

around negative people, that we're proactively

making an effort to make sure that we

take a positive stance instead. That doesn't mean

that negative things won't happen but it's the

lens by which we approach it and how

we respond to it.

And when you become the type of person

that's able to respond to situations in that

manner, someone that their default is positive energy.

Not that they're constantly 100% happy all the

time, but that their default is positivity,

that they outweigh the negativity of others. When

you're able to do that, you attract other

people like that to you and you surround

yourself with high achieving, positive people and that

leads to more success. Hope you enjoyed the

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