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The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy
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The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

by Jon Gordon
January 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
194 pages
2h 41m
English
Wiley
Content preview from The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy
Chapter 15
A Very Long Weekend
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While George was pacing around his bedroom he noticed a Time magazine sitting on his nightstand with Abraham Lincoln on the cover. George was fascinated with the life and presidency of Abraham Lincoln. He marveled that this man who was said to suffer from depression was able to overcome several election defeats, two bankruptcies, a nervous breakdown, and the death of his fiancée before becoming President of the United States. A seeming failure at the age of 51, he had summoned the courage and strength that unified our country and changed the course of history. George couldn’t help but imagine what it must have been like in the past for Lincoln to wait and wait and wait for the Civil War battle reports to come in, not knowing if his country was one step closer to unification or destruction.
Yet now as George spent time with his family and did chores around the house he had a small sense of what it was like to wait and wait and have your fate unfold before you. As time inched slowly by, he continually wondered who was going to be on his bus and who would stay off it. He wondered if he had the strength and courage to overcome his own small civil war at work. And he wondered if he was headed toward victory or defeat. He had handed out the bus tickets on Friday and he felt great about his meetings, but Monday would be the telling point. He walked over ...
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