Chapter 23
Feeling Good
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George heard a loud chant as he approached the bus. “I feel great. Yes. I feel great. Yes. I feel great. Yes,” echoed throughout the bus and through his ears as all the passengers were cheering and throwing their arms into the air. Joy, of course, was leading the chant before she stopped to greet George.
“Hey, Sugar, how are you feeling today?”
“Good,” he said. “What’s going on here? Why are you all cheering like this?”
“Emotions, George. They can lift you up or bring you down. We like to say that E-motion stands for energy in motion and your emotional state is all about how the energy is flowing through you. So instead of letting negative emotions take you down a dark road of negativity, sadness, and despair we can take control of our emotions, charge ourselves up, and let the positive energy flow.”
“Makes sense but it seems a little corny,” George said.
“Of course it does,” she answered. “We know that. But the people on this bus are walking off happy, charged up, and ready for the day while many on the other buses are dreading another day at work. What would you rather be, corny and happy or buttoned up and miserable? It’s an easy choice, don’t you think?”
George couldn’t argue with her. He had been miserable long enough to know he would rather look silly and be happy than miserable. Anything but miserable.
“The key is to feel good,” she continued. “When you feel good everyone around you feels good. And we’re not talking about feeling good from a double latte or candy bar kind of feeling good. We’re talking about a feeling joy, happiness, enthusiasm, gratitude, passion, and excitement kind of feeling good. Remember, George, the gifts you bring to the world are not found in your resume, accomplishments, or presents to others. The gift is your presence of feeling good and being happy and bringing this to others. Being around happy and positive people makes people feel happy and positive. Too many people try to please others and this only makes them unhappy. Better to focus on feeling good and letting this feeling and happiness shine on others. When you feel good you give from power. When you feel bad and try to feel good by pleasing others you only give away your power . . . and this makes you weaker. Am I making sense?”
She was making perfect sense to George. He had spent his life trying to please his boss, his wife, and everyone else only to grow more unhappy every day. Now he was feeling good again. The Energy Vampires were off his bus and his team was on the right track. Feeling good definitely made a difference.
But George was also still thinking about his day yesterday and was still trying to figure out what was missing. He told Joy about his day and his meetings with Jamie and José and how they had blasted him with the truth and how it had really made him realize how destructive he had been as a leader. He told her about the positive team meetings and the way they all had responded. Then he asked her point blank what wasn’t he doing that he could be doing that would make the difference. “After all, I’m feeling good and they are responding but not as much as I would like. There is still something missing. I know we can do even more. There has to be something more than just feeling good.”
“There is more,” Joy responded immediately. “You’re definitely a changed man, George. I’m proud of you for that. But now you got to be a changed leader. And the key to this change is your heart. What’s missing is your heart. This is what we’ve got to help you tap and share with others. It’s all about heart, Georgey. I hope you are ready because once you take the next step on your journey there ain’t no turning back.”
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