Are you apathetic or energetic?

We are all customers of someone else. Every single day through every interaction that we have. We all use products and services, which have to be purchased from someone else or some organisation or other. We have interactions with people within other departments of the organisation that we work for. So we are customers of some people, and we have customers coming to us for whatever it is we do/are planning on doing.
  
And in most cases there is a transaction based process that takes place - rarely do you get something for nothing.
  
  If you do this for me I will do something for you.
  
  We may exchange time for goods, services and money
  We may exchange goods for other goods and money
  We may exchange money for goods and services
  
And we have families and friends who look to us to provide us with something. Be it food, shelter, laughter, love, security and a whole host of other things associated with being close to other people.

But one thing we haven't looked at yet is the energy that goes into the equation. We always exchange energy with other people during the transaction process. We may enjoy whatever it is we are planning on doing with our time (usually spending time with our families, friends and loved ones, our jobs, voluntary work and hobbies are the usual suspects), or we may hate every minute of the time we are there. In which case why are you doing it?
  
Then there is also apathy, and at the other end of the spectrum - anger.
  
- Anger at the other person for whatever that person has or has not done, and

- Apathy because you may feel that you cannot do anything to change the transaction process to your favour. 
  
In order to break through the procrastination habit it is important to look at the energy equation with regards to the people you interact with.

List the main suspects in your life, then answer this:

What energy rating would you give that person? The ratings I would use are Positive / Negative / Neutral.

The trick is to get more positive interactions than negative ones, so if you find all your negative emotions are based around a certain set of people, then you can determine if you can and want to do soemthing about being with them. Or do you need to change your attitude rather than your job or spouse?

So next time you are speaking/interacting with someone, consider - what energy are you receiving, and more importantly - what energy are you giving.

Kind Regards
Elle

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