The Energy Bus for Kids: A Story About Staying Positive and Overcoming Challenges by Jon Gordon

Author:Jon Gordon [Gordon, Jon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Business & Economics, General, Juvenile Nonfiction, Social Issues, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781118287354
Google: ATTnlFIMXhoC
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-08-21T13:21:24+00:00

George Takes Control of His Bus

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José spoke first. “Okay, now what?” he asked.

George stood silent considering “now what” as a thought popped into his head that said, You can’t change the past. Let it go. Create the future.

“Now we create our future,” George answered confidently as his eyes lit up. He had been knocked to the canvas again with two right hooks, but this time he got up. He wasn’t giving up this time. No, this time he was charging forward toward his vision. “Now I ask you to give me a chance to make it up to you,” he said. “I don’t know how yet but I’ll think of something. Just please help me with the launch and let me prove to you that I’m someone you feel good about working for. Let me show you I’m here for you.” José agreed and they walked out of his office together to gather the team for a meeting that would be the start of a very productive and positive day.

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Chapter 21

George Has a Dream

That night after one of the most productive

days at work George had experienced in

years, he had a dream. He was driving a

bus and on it were his employees, his

wife, and his children. The bus was racing down the mountain toward a big black hole in the ground. Just as the bus was about to crash and explode, an invisible hand lifted the bus, George, and all his passengers to safety. Then as George, his team, and his family stood on a ledge overlooking the abyss an incredible feeling of peace came over him, and he heard a whisper call out to him, “Trust that great things are happening.” He had woken up in a deep sweat thinking about the launch and his team.

He realized that the most critical three days of his life lay before him, yet he also had an incredible feeling of calm that somehow it would all work out. Somehow it would all come together. The feeling even surprised him, but after the last week and a half he was getting used to surprises. Life, he was learning, could change in a flash.

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One minute you think you’re headed toward certain destruction and the next you’re sitting on a bus strategizing about business with a bunch of people who probably never actually had taken a business class in their lives.

The biggest surprise of all is that what they say actually works. Yes, George was getting used to surprises.

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Chapter 22

Better Today than Yesterday

What’s missing? What can I do better? How

can I show my team I’m on their bus?

George thought as he sat at the bus stop

Wednesday morning thinking about his

conversations with Jamie and José and his team’s overall performance yesterday. The day’s events ran through his mind in the way a football coach would revisit every play of a game or a dancer would rehash every move, every twist, and every turn of her performance.

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