Webinar Today: How to Have More Energy

Join me today at Noon CST (1:00 EST, 11:00 PST) for a one-hour webinar with practical strategies to boost your physical, mental, and emotional energy.  Participants will also receive a downloadable edition of my special report – 76 Actions You Can Take to Have More Energy.

I’ve been fascinated with this topic because energy is life – and it takes energy to live your values.  Please join me for the call – and invite anyone else you’d like to have in the room with you join as well.  Remember, you will also have access to the archived editions of both the webinar and the special report for future use.

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Nearly 900 Spark Plug readers responded to my recent survey on engagement and attitude in the workplace. Next week I’ll share an updated version of the new special report analyzing these results, and making recommendations, but today I want to focus on one specific area: complaining. I hope you are as appalled as I am by the fact that nearly one half of Spark Plug respondents perceived that more than 20% of paid hours in their organizations are wasted on complaining and other forms of toxic emotional negativity. Much as I want to disbelieve this figure, it is so close to results of engagement studies by Gallup and other organizations that I suspect it is accurate.

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In an observational study at a Values Coach client with about 3,000 employees, participants in one of our courses on values-based life and leadership skills observed and recorded incidents of toxic emotional negativity such as gossiping, complaining, and finger-pointing. We extrapolated from their observations that there were more than 10 million incidents of toxic emotional negativity per year in that organization.

Ten million times a year two or more people gathered to gossip, whine, and otherwise waste their time (and that portion of their lives) in the misery of toxic emotional negativity. That’s an average of 1.1 gripes and gossips per hour per employee every working day of the year.

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By Elsabeth Roush

Human beings are capable of so many unbelievable things – but isn’t it remarkable that so many of us do not fully comprehend our harness these abilities until we find ourselves up against a deadline or feel empowered to take a stand?  Why do we wait for that defining moment to show the world what we can do?  For those of you struggling to find motivation – tune in.  This Spark Plug is for you.

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The Solution to (Almost) Every Problem in the World

What if one of the nation’s leading authorities on organizational culture and one of the leading authorities on personal achievement could agree on the one thing that would change everything for the better.  This one thing would help people be happier and more successful at achieving their personal and professional goals; it would help organizations be more effective at being positive, productive, and profitable; and it would help to solve some of the most pressing problems facing the nation and the world. Would you sit up and take notice? Would you take action?

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