Are You a Life Force Extractor?

While meeting with Olympic Hot Tub Company Co-Owner Alice Cunningham, she mentioned that one of her New Year’s resolutions was to avoid LFE’s. I smiled and asked for an explanation. She smiled in return and defined LFE’s as Life Force Extractors. These are folks who drain you of life force in your life and business.

Oprah calls them energy bandits. Robert Barone from “Everyone Loves Raymond” calls them dream squashers. Others call them naysayers. These are the folks that anonymously complain about what the professional group served for lunch or whether or not the speaker for that day hit the mark in every way. These are also the folks that seem to have all the reasons why a big idea won’t work when a little imagination and ingenuity can clearly turn that same idea into something fabulous.

Whatever you call them, what are you doing to get them out of your life?

There is something about a new year that gives us all pause to consider whether we are flying with eagles or cackling with the turkeys. As for me, I’d much prefer to soar with the eagles because that’s where the view is the best. I am spending more dream time considering how high I can reach, and those notions are informing my life and work every day. I sure don’t get it right all the time, but I keep at it. And that’s a good way to make sure my life force is giving, rather than extracting.

What are you doing to keep the energy and people around you lifting you higher? Comment here so others can benefit. I can’t wait to read what you have to say.