How can you manage your emotions and how beneficial it is for you?
Understanding how to manage your moods and emotions, both by learning to take control over your moods and understanding other people’s moods in order for you to work well with them can actually turbo-charge your own success, you will even surprise yourself.
You may wonder how essential all these can be in your life. Isn’t managing moods about being good and nice, or about practicing a golden rule? And isn’t enhancing your emotional intelligence can be out of your reach, since moods are natural and you don’t actually control how other people make you feel, right?
Managing your moods and emotions is definitely not just about being good or nice to other. You see, learning how to manage your moods and emotional intelligence are a skill that anyone can take advantage or benefit from. And it’s worthy to note that there is actually no one who could not benefit from enhancing their abilities to fully manage their emotions and manage their moods.
Managing moods and emotions is among the many things you will need to learn if you actually get serious in taking your professional and personal life into a higher level. Consider an equation of ‘feeling’ plus ‘focus’ equals to fact. This equation only means - Where you place your attention, and how exactly you are thinking about something will determine what actions you will take next.
Apply this in a real world scenario: You’re focusing on the last thing your boss had said during the meeting.You suddenly feel embarrassed from what she said, but you actually lack the essential assertiveness trainings to handle the situation well, hence, instead of speaking to your boss in an assertive manner, you just continue to think all about the even over and over again.
Each time, you then feel more negative – and here is where your moods and emotions get stronger and it depends upon your style of understanding and processing this type of negative feelings. There are some people who experience their moods negativity outward, so their ‘facts’ will be about anger and directed towards their boss. But there are other people who will experience their moods negativity inward, and their ‘facts’ will be lowered self-esteem and self-confidence, and they may also feel helpless especially in asserting themselves.
Managing your moods enhances and develops assertive communication.
Picture an angry person or a person with low self-confidence trying to become assertive. Neither low self-esteem nor anger or eve helplessness can help anyone be assertive. However, by managing your moods, and having a higher emotional intelligence can definitely help you in self-management, impulse or moods control, and self-confidence. And it can also help you have more social awareness, be more tolerant and understanding of other people whose emotional intelligence is not as powerful as yours.
In addition to that, with higher emotional intelligence skills, you will be able to have great relationship management. With this, you will be more eloquent, confident, and better at asserting yourself and managing your moods. Developing your skills of managing your moods and increasing your emotional intelligence takes right tools, tips, and techniques for you to master.
Staying motivated to manage moods
Learning how to stay motivated to manage your moods is a great factor that can help you love a happier and fulfilled life. It all usually starts with your thoughts and thoughts lead to emotions and moods, which then lead to actions and produce varied results. If you constantly believe and think that you cannot do something, then you should change this thought for you to feel different towards different things.
Your thoughts are too powerful – producing the driving forces behind your actions. Your motivation starts basically with thoughts. What’s not real might seem real, depending on your state of thinking since it affects your perceptions in life’s experiences. When you suffer from hard days, you tend to have least resistance and this is so because it may seem the easiest thing to do and it requires you with least effort.
This is natural; it is a part of you being a human being. The pathway you prefer to walk can actually lead to varied situations and scenarios that either helps you overcome your problems and manage your moods, or in a worst scenario, you develop negative thoughts and negative moods producing long term unwanted results.
Staying Motivated
Yes, it’s true. Bad moods may lead to worst scenarios but good moods may lead you to good scenarios. It’s that easy – just so you know happiness is a choice. So instead of begrudging your bad day with your bad moods, why not see each day is the best days of your life and live up with cheerful moods. Isn’t that great?
It is essential for you to stay very motivated to manage your moods to create consistent actions that can promote positive outcome for you. Therefore, you should identify what drives your good moods and what drive your bad moods. And remember to eliminate all the negative things out of your life and stay positive, this will help you in managing your moods in a way that you make it a habit of yourself.
Synchronicity facilitates a flow of true happy events that become one of your daily and normal routine. Positive energy will surround you and all the things you touch will literally turn to gold. With this, the law of true abundance will bless you daily. If you really want this to happen, here’s a simple yet powerful plan. This is a six point personal plan that can design your moods.
- Arise from bed quickly: get out from your bed immediately. Give yourself enough purpose to see the new day as another bright great day.
- Say it out loud ‘It is definitely a good day!’ This will help you start your day with a positive energy. Be ready to join a happy world!
- Sing – in the shower and even in your car! Feeling depressed whenever you sing? No way! Singing will set a good mood for a positive thinking.
- Compliments others – say something good and nice to people, enjoy your life and encourage a sense of gratitude.
Excerpted from the book Managing Moods.
This excerpt has been edited and condensed for clarity.
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