Author’s Note
It is fun to look back at your life and see how certain events led to where you are right now, like the inspiration to write this book. I was traveling on a 28-city book tour for my first book, Energy Addict: 101 Ways to Energize Your Life, when I met an actual bus driver who took me from the Denver rental car lot to the airport. The bus driver not only had the biggest smile I had ever seen but dispensed life-changing wisdom that truly impacted me. This bus driver embodied the positive energy I was traveling the country talking about. I wrote an article about this meeting in my weekly e-newsletter called “10 Rules for the Ride of Your Life” and was inundated with enthusiastic responses calling it the best newsletter yet. Then one day while taking a walk the idea and story for this book just literally jumped into my head. And once I started writing, I couldn’t stop. The words flowed through me, and now you are holding this book.
So it is my pleasure to invite you on the Energy Bus as we take a short, fun, meaningful journey together. I hope you use this book not only to fuel your life, work, and team with positive energy but also to enjoy the ride of your life. After all, the goal in life is to live young, have fun, and arrive at your final destination—as late as possible—with a smile on your face, because this would mean that you truly enjoyed the ride.
I’d like to also give credit to the following people and work for inspiring certain ideas in this book.
Words from the Energy Bus children’s book were inspired by Richard Bach, the author of Illusions and Jonathan Livingston Seagull, who said, “You are never given a wish without the power to make it come true.”
The positive energy formula was inspired by the formula E + R = 0, which Jack Canfield, author of The Success Principles, shared with me.
The information from the Energy Book referred to in the story is from my book The 10-Minute Energy Solution.
The story about Abraham Lincoln waiting for Civil War battle reports to come in was inspired by an audio recording from Jim Collins, author of Good to Great. But while Jim Collins also talks about getting the right people on the bus, the idea for this book was my own.
I learned about the airplane design study for rule #9 from Laurie Beth Jones and her book, Jesus CEO.
Research about the energy of the heart was from the Institute of HeartMath, www.heartmath.org. They are doing phenomenal and innovative work.
Joy’s bus was number 11 for a reason. It’s a special number to me.
I’m sending positive energy your way,
Jon
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