Your thoughts affect your emotions, your energy level, your relationships, your performance, and the results that you help to generate in your organization. Slow down mentally so that you are aware of what you are thinking while you are thinking it. Notice what emotions your thoughts are generating. When you feel it is necessary, consciously change your thoughts in order to generate the emotions you need to have and the energy, relationships, and performance necessary to help your organization go to the next level.

To a very large degree, every business is driven by thoughts and emotions. Thoughts and emotions at work influence decisions, behaviors, relationships, and, ultimately, results. Consequently, it is very important to try to make your thoughts and emotions as effective as you can make them.

I. Regarding Yourself
If you want to jump into the deep end of the learning pool on how a person’s thinking affects his or her emotions, I recommend the following books: Learned Optimism, What You Can Change & What You Can’t, Authentic Happiness, and Flourish by Martin Seligman; Working With Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman; and Cognitive Therapy by Aaron Beck. That is 1900 pages of writing by three of the most important psychologists of the past 50 years. In addition, I recommend two books on sports psychology called Warburton’s Winning System by Greg Warburton and Sports, Energy, and Consciousness by a variety of authors and edited by Eric Leskowitz. Ideas from those books also have great application for business leaders.

Powering on Potential, Think About How You Think.