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

At his desk at work George remembers a friend, Chuck, who made it big during the internet boom but suffered divorce and other tragedies. George doesn’t want to suffer Chuck’s fate. He pores through the Energy Book and finds an exercise called “the Thank-You Walk” (52). George walks outside around the building, saying aloud things for which he feels grateful. He learns from the book that “being grateful floods the body and brain with positive endorphins and emotions and combined with walking is a powerful energy booster” (52). It does feel great, he decides.

That evening George pulls out the Energy Book and reads that golfers, after a game, tend to remember not the blunders but “the one great shot they had that day” (53). This addicts them to golf. However, most people remember their problems rather than their wins. If they were to instead remember the one great thing that happened each day, they would become addicted to life.

George sits with his kids and asks them to relate their biggest success of the day. The kids love this exercise; George resolves that it will become a daily tradition. As he walks his dog George recalls his own success of the day.