The amazing “Jonny Quest”…and energy sinks

I’ve been working hard on Brendon Burchard’s “Peak Performance” system for the last three months, and things have really been popping. Can I attribute the positive changes to this system? Maybe. It could be coincidence. But I’m definitely willing to wonder.

There are six core qualities you are asked to look at every day: Clarity, Energy, Necessity, Productivity, Influence, and Courage. All can be developed by anyone, none are innate, all are said to be correlated with high levels of success and life satisfaction, and improving ANY of them improves ALL of them.

I spent the first two months working on Clarity. Then the third balancing Clarity and Energy, and now I’m looking at “Energy” as the one to focus on. Might be useful to speak of an energy sink I avoided yesterday.

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People speak of how arguments, especially on Social Media, suck their time and energy. This isn’t about “bad” people or even agonizing about horrible events. Let me give an example.

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When I was a kid, I loved action-adventure television shows and cartoons. But nothing prepared me for Hannah Barbera’s Jonny Quest, which was one of the first cartoons introduced in evening Prime Time (“The Flintstones”, a cartoon version of “The Honeymooners” had come first, and a few others). In this groundbreaking show, Twelve year old (approximately) Jonny, his adopted brother Hadji, super-scientist Dr. Benton Quest and government agent/babysitter “Race”…