The Four Energies: Finding your life/career direction and the fuel to follow it Bill O’Hanlon, M.S.

The Four Energies 1 BLISSED

The Four Energies FOLLOW YOUR BLISS

Steve Jobs “You’ve got to find what you love. And that is true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know it when you find it.” Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma–which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

Source: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow, New York: Harper, Flow Focused concentration Absorption Feeling strong and alert Effortless control Unselfconscious At the peak of one’s abilities Sense of time disappears or stretches out Transcendence Mindfulness/present moment focus

The Four Energies 1 BLESSED

Blessed Receiving a benediction from someone that releases energy in a certain direction or inspires you

Gillian Lynne

Blessed People who believed in you, encouraged you or told you you were good at something or could do something Talents, developed or natural, that you have Incidents of good luck (being in the right place at the right time-and taking advantage of that luck)

Finding/identifying angels, mentors and models Who has taken a special interest in you and encouraged you? Who believes or believed in you? Who has been/is your mentor? Who have been your inspirational models? Who has blessed you? Who has been your angel?

THE POWER OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS From “Follow Your Bliss” to “Follow Your Blisters”

USING DISSED AND PISSED The key to transforming negative emotions and energy is to turn them into life directions and contributions

DISSED 1 Wounded

Dissed/Wounded Vocal coach Patsy Rodenbe rg

Dissed/Wounded Horror writer Stephen King

DISSED 2 Cursed

Dissed/Cursed “You’re not smart enough”

DISSED 3 Disrespected

Dissed Rock music and movie critic Ken Tucker

Dissed to Creativity, Contribution or Career Where have you been wounded? Where or about what have you been cursed? How can you turn this wound or disrespect or curse into a blessing or contribution? How could this wound, curse, or disrespect fuel your creativity or career?

PISSED 4 Angry

Andrew Vachss

Pissed Off “When I wrote [In Search of Excellence], I wasn’t trying to fire a shot to signal a revolution. But I did have an agenda. My agenda was this: I was genuinely, deeply, sincerely, and passionately pissed off! So what’s the point? Just this: Nearly 100% of innovation–from business to politics–is inspired not by ‘market analysis’ but by people who are supremely pissed off by the way things are.” –Tom Peters

PISSED 2 Righteously Indignant

PISSED 3 Critical/Dissati sfied

Martha Graham “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action–and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours, clearly and directly.”

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