103 B R E A K I N G F R E E F R OM C O S T LY E N E R G Y S OU R C E S • If you want to know anything about anyone or what’s happening around here, just ask her. She is into everybody’s business! • You have to take everything he says with a grain of salt. • Don’t tell him until we know for sure. He’ll explode just hearing this MAY happen. • I should have waited until I had all the information. Now she has her mind made up no matter what the facts are! • I wish she would just keep her opinions to herself. Every time I talk to her it seems I walk away worrying more about the whole situation. • Don’t go into his office today. He’s really in a foul mood. • If he would just stick to what is happening in his department, he wouldn’t get sucked into all the trouble in accounting, but he insists on being part of their problems too! • Oh, that’s just the way she is. I wish she would lighten up! Everything is as serious as a heart attack with her! • There’s no talking to him until we know the outcome of the 4th quarter revenues. That’s all he can focus on until he knows. Until drama people are able to spot when they are getting hooked by drama, they will continue to use this costly adrenaline energy source. A little drama in life is not a bad thing, but a lot can command a high price. ADRENALINE SOURCE #3: OBLIGATION Our third most popular adrenaline energy source comes from the feeling one has when they are obligated to a mission to do good, help or crusade for something or someone. It’s almost always at the expense of what the obligation person wants or needs, or what is most important to them. Please don’t get this wrong, we are strong proponents of doing good things for others, but when we seek out obligations and take on much more responsibility than we want to or can handle, it becomes a costly energy source. Obligation people often have a sense of HAVING to do something. They feel that there are no choices in it for them. It is their duty, and their fuel is OBLIGATION. This energy source can be confusing since we all want to do good things for others and take responsibility for certain situations and often get a good feeling from it. But obligation people get energy to keep marching on because they are doing it for a cause and usually wind up putting what is most important to themselves on a shelf somewhere, never having enough energy left over to get to what they want. All this because they have put everyone else’s needs, desires, and interests ahead of their own. But by feeling obligated to "the cause", it keeps them going. They have a strong
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