Yes! Energy: Does Casual Friday Mean Casual Results?

You’ve heard me say it many times over: “The strongest energy always wins.”

It is in our nature, especially as the weekend grows closer, to start slowing down and allowing our energy to drift off. Yet, it is often in this time that our most powerful exchanges with others can take place, particularly from a business or sales perspective.

When you are living a unified life, the need to regularly “Thank God for Friday” starts to become less important, as we grow into a process of “Thanking God for Every Day.” There is no need for an energy divide to put troublesome or trivial things behind you. You will simply not engage in those activities at any point.

This is not to say that you will have chores or menial activities that must be completed each and every day. But as part of living a life you truly want, you will do less of the activities that you dread, sourcing them out to a team or partners who actually enjoy them and have incentive to do so.

Eventually, this means that each day will grow to reflect your overall energy. Why do you really hate Mondays? Are you the type that starts losing sleep on Sunday night having to plan your week ahead? What is the actual PURPOSE of “Casual Friday” other than to create “Casual Results?”

Personally, I’ve experienced a lot of this push back in many areas of my life. I’ve been told to sit down and have a meal when I’m not hungry simply because that is the “designated time to eat.” I’ve been told to take a seat at the “little table,” but instead just pulled my chair right up to the “Big Table” to understand the larger conversations. I’ve had other speakers or businesses question why I put so much emphasis around creating huge momentum and activity during the holiday season when most others are slowing down to a crawl.

Live Out Loud is the result of endless questioning of the tiny saboteurs that actually keep you from big results.

Oh, and despite all of the questioning or skepticism, the holidays are typically one of the biggest sources of business, momentum and energy around my business. Also, many of the biggest events in my business have occurred on Fridays.

Why does this happen? It isn’t some sort of big secret, it’s simply that I question everything. This isn’t to say that you should always be asking from a skeptical or cynical place, but you must understand where these behavior patterns and traditions began. Why can’t every day be a holiday? Why can’t we take a day off whenever we want instead of carefully reserving them for when we are sick (when our energy is the lowest)? If eating replenishes our energy, why not just eat when we are hungry?

The disappointing fact is that most of these traditions are born from scarcity. The only way to break free of scarcity-based thinking is simply to break out of the mold and do something different.

What can you do to create amazing results today and throw away what’s “typical?” You’ve got the whole day to find out!

Yes! Energy: The “Sequence” to Success

How many times have you experienced this feeling:

You’re working as hard as you possibly can, investing your time and energy into getting your business off the ground. You’re developing content, drawing up a business plan or talking to your peers about ways to really get going. Days or even weeks pass in this cycle of activity. After you “wake up” from this feeling, you find that you aren’t really achieving the results you wanted. Sure, you’ve got a lot of things done, but you realize that despite all of the activity you aren’t any closer to the financial, personal or spiritual goal you’ve set out for yourself.

First of all, you’re not alone in that feeling. There’s a real reason why so many new entrepreneurs or businesses fail within that first year.

The secret is in the “sequence,” which simply means doing the right thing in the right order.

That said, the things that many of us identify as the most important tasks emotionally are not actually the ones that will move us closer to our eventual goal.

Trust me, this isn’t about making anyone “wrong,” but it’s about clearly identifying the fastest path to what we really want without taking the various off ramps along the way. It’s SO easy to get lost in distraction, busy work or the demands of others on our time and energy. In our previous blog, we discussed how these drains on energy lead to overall frustration and fatigue, but the sequence is actually the solution to making sure that none of these things happen in the first place.

In financial terms, success begins and ends with marketing and sales. If these activities are NOT your top priority each and every day, it’s time to re-sequence and reset your priorities. Too often, new entrepreneurs get stuck in the pattern of endless creation and invention. While our ideas may be brilliant, the lack of feedback from marketing and sales interaction can doom them to failure from the very beginning.

In a Yes! Energy conversation, your process begins and ends with feedback. In the beginning, the feedback you need is to verify your idea or model and course correct prior to launching on a wider scale. Exercises like talking to 21 new people per day can help you identify gaps and perfect your process. In the end, the feedback will help you develop future content, relationships and even products. This allows you to create based on what your audience ACTUALLY wants, rather than what you think they want.

In personal terms, success actually begins with similar elements. Your daily conversations actually have a tremendous impact on ALL areas of your success. Understanding what type of behavior motivates you versus what brings you down is vital. You must clearly identify who advises you, who motivates you and who holds you accountable.

In spiritual terms, most of us simply do not invest the time to these personal pursuits. By beginning each day with an understanding of what enriches your life, whether it’s prayer, meditation or just deep thought, you will find that the challenges become easier to overcome.

By identifying and remaining in this new conversation each day, the benefits will become clearer and success will grow.

Which area is the most organized for you? Which area needs more attention and a better plan?

Share your conversation below!

Yes! Energy: What Do You Give Back?

With the beginning of our exciting Yes! Energy Summit in a week, I have been personally engaged in a number of conversations with different visionaries, thought leaders and entrepreneurs to discuss a variety of personal and professional topics. Throughout those conversations, one of the most consistent themes raised breaks down to a single word: Legacy.

All people, but entrepreneurs in particular, strive to have an impact on the world around them by solving problems or consistently giving more than they take away from others. Entrepreneurs approach this with the specific tack of providing innovative and creative solutions to the problems that we face in our daily lives. The technology platforms that have become vital in all aspects of our life.

There are very few people in the past forty years who have had a bigger impact on our personal or professional lives than Steve Jobs, former CEO of Apple and Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft. There is no arguing their impact on the practical level, but it is at the “legacy” level where things start to become a little more cloudy.

In a detailed New York Times article on August 29th, a case is made for both sides of the argument. Bill Gates stands as one of the most notable philanthropists in the world, as his foundation has arguably created more for charitable causes than any other organization in history. Steve Jobs is primarily notable for his commitment to innovation and operating at an efficiency and design level that few people ever do. The moral of the story isn’t to necessarily make anyone “right or wrong” (though we certainly would love to hear your opinions in the comments), but it is truly to highlight the role that legacy plays in all of the things we do on a daily basis.

Bill Gates believes that his impact is the most powerful in the charitable giving space whereas Steve Jobs views his influence as a direct extension of his role within the business. Both of which changed the world dramatically for the better.

At Live Out Loud, this conversation is largely framed within the context of your “why.” When others look back on your impact in the future, for better or for worse, what will your footprint look like? In “Yes! Energy,” this theory is presented primarily within three major areas: financial, personal and spiritual. Given the talents and gifts you already have, there is likely an area where you will have the greatest impact. This does not mean that you cannot impact ALL of those areas in some shape or form, but having a deeper understanding of the things you do well, versus the activities that drain, can help you accelerate in ways you never thought possible.

In the end, we all must understand those things which resonate the most within us. As part of “Yes! Energy,” we’re looking for your commitment. Share your comments and commitments below to keep our conversation going. What will you give back to the world?

That’s Yes! Energy – Thank You!

Video Transcript:

Here we are in August and my new book Yes! Energy, The Equation To Do Less Make More, doesn’t launch until February 21st, 2012, but I want to thank all of you. Many, many, many of you have contributed to the announcement today that we have just passed 1,000 book orders!

We have a huge target for this book. We have a big launch. I’d love for you to continue to buy books. We have cool Yes! Energy stuff coming out, like bracelets, tee shirts, Yes! Energy drinks, Yes! Energy wine, Yes! Energy water bottles — all sorts of fun things we’re making up. So…

Thanks for an amazing first part of our launch! We have just past the thousand book mark on our way to another New York Times best-seller.

Thanks and stay in touch!

Loral

Loral Langemeier, 4-time best-selling author, has created a step-by-step approach to guide you to finding inspiration, motivation, and passion in your daily life. Through her new book, Yes! Energy, with her strategic “Energy Equation,” Loral demonstrates how her method has helped change thousands of lives with a few simple shifts in daily activity.

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