The game changes when you learn to control your emotions.
How often have you been willing to succumb to the seductive nature of allowing your emotions to entirely overwhelm your best judgment, in favor of your choosing to say or do something that you have since regretted?
When we are in the heat of a moment, our overarching wisdom is often times thwarted by an internal anger or other persuasive emotion that drives our best behavior into seclusion in favor of enabling an alternate side of our personality, which acts upon a triggered circumstance, and which ultimately yields a response, not necessarily of our wiser choosing.
As we grow more readily aware of how this Achilles’ heel so readily defines why we have found ourselves in tenuous circumstances, we would be entirely remiss not to isolate this particular quality about ourselves, in order that we might better sequester our more vulnerable personality quirks, and examine them under the auspices of whether or not they are truly serving our greater interests at large.
It is our single opportunity to most clearly recognize that our attitude is the one string we have to play upon. In that understanding, we are all the more empowered to make wiser choices with very clear expectations as to how and why, in the blink of an eye, our ill-founded choices are so capable of recklessly endangering months of effort and carefully-planned energy, expended.
It is our responsibility to grasp this as early in life as we are able, in order that we become all of the more capable of recognizing how and why our emotion is instantly powerful enough to reverse our best efforts and set us back on our heels, solely through our own inability to maintain composure under the most demanding of circumstances.
As we become more capable of capturing that emotion as it manifests in the mind and sequestering it into its own internal compartment, we are then able to make the very best choices, which will substantially improve our ability to succeed, when life pushes us to difficult thresholds.
When you are angry and wish to respond. Don’t.
When your emotions are flaring. Chill.
When you have to send that text or email right now… send it to yourself, just so you can hit the send button.
Then, wait it out. If you are truly that disturbed, there is always time in the future to express it.
But if you express it in the heat of the moment, you may potentially regret having done so for the rest of your life.
Change the game in your favor. Learn how your emotions are both ally and adversary in the most dualistic of realities.
Happy Wednesday!
Brian Weiner 