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I can smell your energy (and what to do about it)
Just like a bad smell can awaken an instinct of repulsion, so can bad energy.
I don’t know about you, but when I come into contact with someone who is victimized or just saturated in a constant state of complaint, I sometimes feel the same instinct to pull away that I do when a repugnant smell hits my nostrils.
Who wants to stand around and have a conversation or solve a problem next to a pile of decomposing fruit in the summer heat?
That’s what it’s like to be in a meeting with a leader or a colleague who has a bad attitude, defensiveness, and negativity.
Or the co-worker who starts a meeting complaining he has so many meetings. (Unless the purpose of the meeting is to solve for the disproportionate balance of meetings to work time…it’s not helpful. Actually, even then…it’s not helpful. Better to vent about your personal situation to your dog who will simply lick your face and make you smile).
In fact, behaviors such as these are like rubbing decomposing fruit all over the energetic airwaves.
You’re only stinking up the workplace.
What most people don’t realize is that our energy is within our control.
Based on the work by Bruce D. Schneider, energy comes in a wide spectrum…
