The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy (Jon Gordon)

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To succeed in your personal and professional life, you must learn to manage people’s energy, including your own. This book explains how to manage negativity and create positive energy to bring desired outcomes for you, your team/organization and your family. To be on the bus, leaders should make clear to all team members that they will he held accountable to meet some basic expectations.

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There will be times when people will not want to get on board. When that happens, do not waste your energy trying to understand them. Some people increase your energy and your team’s, while others—energy vampires—drain it. You need to eliminate the energy vampires standing between you and your goals. Cheerful and purposeful living is at the core of The Energy Bus. It’s not about having little goals in mind or acting dishonestly by pretending to be enthusiastic. The goal is to nurture an optimistic outlook, screen out those who drain your energy or so-called energy vampires, and embrace positivism. Let’s look at the straightforward lessons. 10 Rules of the Energy Bus You are the Driver There’s a formula for change: E (events) + P (perception) = O (outcome). While we can’t always control events, we can control the way we perceive them. How we perceive them and respond dictates the outcome. The “P” in this formula can also stand for positive energy.Well, it’s actually less important than George might think. If people don’t want to get on the bus, you shouldn’t try to convince them. Decide what your team needs to accomplish to realise your vision. Note these objectives down. Determine the steps you must take to achieve the goals that will enable you to realise your vision. These steps should be noted down. Give every team member a copy of these objectives and the next steps.

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As George grumbled in response, she told him hers was no ordinary bus—it was “The Energy Bus”—and he was going to enjoy the ride. She was an “energy ambassador,” whose mission was to energize her passengers with positive thinking. We each have a positive and negative side, as if there were two dogs inside us battling for dominance—a positive, kind dog and a negative, angry dog. To generate positive energy, you need to “feed the positive dog.” Joy explained to George that to boost his team’s energy, he needed to broadcast his positive energy by tapping into the power of his heart. You lead from the heart by becoming the CEO, or chief energy officer of your workplace, she said. Build a more positive team with our new interactive Energy Bus online animated training program for individuals, organizations and teams.

Yet, those 2 weeks turned out to be a blessing in disguise. The bus driver, Joy, was a woman full of energy and enthusiasm. After encountering so many passengers who were overworked, overwhelmed, and overstressed, she had made it her personal mission to energize each and every passenger on her bus. She called it the “Energy Bus”, and it was always full of cheerful passengers. The Energy Bus” is a tale of negative George who got on the “energy” bus after his car tire went flat, and met the bus’s driver Joy.

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Unbelievably cheesy. It's a good book for kids in 5th grade or below, it didn't offer anything that I didn't already know. The two Just as every cell in the body beats to the frequency of the heart, everyone around you will beat to your frequency and your energy.” Don’t waste energy worrying about people who don’t share your vision or on trying to change their minds. There will always be people who don’t want to ride your bus, or be part of your team. Don’t take it personally—maybe another bus would be a better fit for them, or they’d be a disruptive presence on your bus anyway. 6) Ban “Energy Vampires”George’s three “wolves” weren’t the problem, as much as the negativity they represented, she said. Negativity surrounds us.

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Since he didn’t have a better idea and needed to do something, George agreed to hear the rules. Joy pointed to a sign at the front of the bus, which listed her principles for having “the ride of your life,” the bus ride being a metaphor for life. The Energy Bus: 10 Rules List On Monday, when bus #11 pulled up to the stop, George shared the news of his team’s success. He also told them he’d decided, as one way to experience joy in the moment, to keep riding the bus to work. “While driving is great, it’s more fun on the bus,” he said. Steps to Building a Winning Team It's Monday morning and George walks out of the front door to his car and a flat tire. This is the least of his problems. His home life is in shambles and his team at work is in disarray. With a big product launch coming in two weeks, he has to find a way to get it together or risk losing his marriage and job. Forced to take the bus to work, George meets a unique bus driver and an interesting cast of characters who, over the course of two weeks, share the ten rules for the ride of his life. In the process, they help him turn around his work and life, saving his job and marriage from destruction. Your employees and coworkers sense whether you care about them as individuals and they respond in kind. Ways to show that you care include: spending time with them, listening, recognizing them, nurturing their growth, and bringing out their best. We (and George, don't forget George!) learn all this from a bus driver named...Joy. Joy calls people "sugar" a lot and was done with a slightly southern accent in the audio book, which was vaguely unsettling. She's super passionate about the 10 rules, even when those rules are creepy, like "love your passengers." This allows Joy to tell George that he should deeply and passionately love all his employees. Please don't, George, HR is gonna get called. Sure, respect your employees, reward them for a job well done, etc., etc. But this is not true love. Stop being weird. But the real point is that all the rules are feel-good, positive thinking mumbo jumbo that aren't actionable or practical or groundbreaking or even interesting.