Energy

It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to focus it on important things instead of spending it away on trivia. Are the things you are spending it on helping you do more volume?

Focusing on what your team, expert, other affiliates, and many other issues take time-these may or may not be necessary sacrifices, but they don’t indicate energy. In fact by doing all these things may merely be draining away whatever energy you have. One five minute argument can take the energy of an 8 hour productive day. Is that really how you want to spend your energy?

Energy is a positive quality-a desire to get things done, and done the right way. It’s an active quality-an urgent need to move from one point to another, to rise to a specific goal, to advance to a new level, to accomplish a given goal. Energy is never static. It’s a pleasurable quality; as in exercise, those who have energy enjoy using it and are excited when it’s put to the test.

Many think to have the full energy they need some burning desire or goal to drag it out of them but that is not true. To develop energy, treat yourself as if you were a child! Reward yourself at every opportunity. If you like a cup of coffee and a Danish in the morning, make yourself answer your mail (or whatever else can be dealt with first thing), then drink your coffee. The secret is conditioning: by attacking small tasks with anticipation, zeal and concentration you are teaching yourself to develop and focus your energy potential. And if it takes a candy bar, or a cup of coffee to do it, don’t be ashamed. Not everyone is born with the ability or discipline to use his or her full energy potential.