Ever had the feeling of waking up feeling lousy? A voice in your head is telling you not to do any work that day. It's telling you that it is alright to rest that day. Then you don't feel like doing anything that day, you rested.
There is nothing wrong with it. Really, it is alright to rest a little when the body needs it. The thing is if this is your style of operation, this is called ECY - EMOTION CONTROLS YOU. Your emotion gets you to move in a certain way. Most of the time, non-successful people operate in this mode.
When non-successful people feels moody, they stop taking action that can bring them towards success. When things get tough, they feel struggle, they give up on success.
There is a common behaviour of non-successful people. Waking up in the morning feeling lousy, they called for sick leave, not wanting to work, not wanting to pursue success. Their behaviour is easily predicted because of their emotion.
Successful people have a opposite mode of operation. Theirs is YCE - YOU CONTROL EMOTION. Successful people have struggles too. They too were knocked down flat to the ground, but they behave differently. They have emotions too, but they do not allow that emotion to control their action. They are able to control that emotion, turn that emotion around so that it works for them.
Some successful people faces trouble waking up in the morning too. They do feel lousy at times, but they are able to switch this negative emotion into a positive one very quickly and move on.
Why there's a need to turn that emotion around?
Simply because EMOTIONS DRIVES MOTION. Your emotion determines your action and behaviour. If you feel upset about someone, you will not treat him too well, wouldn't you?
And how do we turn that emotion around? Very simple - by our thoughts. THOUGHTS DETERMINES EMOTION.
Think about your first love now. How do you feel now? Of course you can feel anything. But it comes from that thought of your first love.
Non-successful people struggles to take action because they first think of negative outcomes or thoughts. Then they feel negative emotions, therefore resulting in no action at all.
If someone wake up in the morning feeling lousy, and having the thought that he's so tired, he doesn't get enough rest, most likely he will continue his sleep.
On the other hand, same person wake up one morning feeling lousy, having the thought that he's tired, he doesn't get enough rest. He quickly thought of the tasks he needs to complete, the success he wants to achieve, he'll probably kick himself out of bed.
It all start from the THOUGHT. With that thought, you can control your emotion instead of letting your emotion controls you. As the old saying, "you become what you think". If you want to feel motivated, think motivated.
By Lee Joe
ezinearticles.com
15 years ago
