Book review: The Energy of Success - Power Up Your Productivity, Transform Your Habits, and Maximize Workplace Motivation, by Rebecca Ahmed

In Rebecca Ahmed’s new book, The Energy of Success, she employs a game-changing strategy for improving workplaces by igniting workers’ personal energy. Ahmed, who spent more than a decade as a Human Resources leader in hospitality organizations, and who is now a speaker and consultant with her human energy message, offers a pathway for how to create energetic shifts in company culture.

Referencing findings from Gallup’s recent “State of the Global Workforce Report,” stating that less than one-third of the US workforce reported being engaged at work, she offers strategies intended to counteract these dismal statistics. The Energy of Success describes the seven zones of energy that people inhabit — from destructive lower levels to constructive higher levels — and shares productive insights that can enable workers to rediscover the passion and purpose that make work engaging.

Drawing examples from her own and her clients’ experiences, the book illustrates how both individual workers and organizational leaders can go about replacing stress and defeat with joy and motivation. Pointing out that society trains us to focus on what’s wrong rather than what’s right with work and life in general, Ahmed describes how people create a repetitive neurological cycle that makes negative perceptions appear as reality. Instead, it’s possible to consciously shift one’s perception and increasingly train ourselves to view challenges or conflicts from a different, more open-minded perspective.

Writes Ahmed, “It turns out that being happy at work is an inside job.” Opening our closed mindset of defeatism or negativity and directing our focus to how and where we can take ownership of our workplace experience brings a higher level of energy to day-to-day situations. In this way, instead of allowing a stressor to impact our energy we’re able to call ourselves out. As we deflect destructive energy and allow constructive energy to build, we transform our approach to work — and to life.

Once we become aware that thoughts, emotions, and actions are all connected and all impact our energy, we begin to learn how to leverage higher levels of energy. We can move away from feeling as if life is happening to us and discover how it feels to be in control of our choices and our futures.

Ahmed also emphasizes that the energy each of us puts out is contagious to those around us. Destructive energy, particularly by those in leadership or management roles, will fuel frustration, pessimism, and burnout, while constructive energy fuels an upbeat, productive workplace culture and environment.

Readers are invited to access a self-assessment tool that will give a quick snapshot of one’s team or organizational energy level based on a five-ranked scale from extremely low to excellent.

Ahmed’s The Energy of Success will give workers of all levels insights into how to invigorate their work with passion and positivity. What’s more, by infusing constructive energy and vitality into our own attitudes toward work we will also energize those around us.

To learn more, visit Ahmed’s website, energeticimpact.com.

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