Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Ideas Become Emotions;Emotions Become Actions
When you think about something long enough and hard enough you begin to get emotional about it. When you get emotional enough about something you will be driven to act on it.
This might not be true in the literal sense but it certainly seems to be true in the experiential sense. Thinking about something is both time investment and work. It uses energy and we become fatigued. Going to college or trying to figure out the taxes are examples of how draining hard mental work can be. The more we do the easier it gets for us. We are building our mental muscles up and finding new ways to use them.
With practice we can study longer and harder than we used to. This means that we are becoming competent and things that used to wear us out don't bother us any more. Becoming competent develops good self-esteem and confidence in our mental abilities. As we become more sure of ourselves and our abilities we express our emotions more. It might simply be because we are not so drained and have the emotional energy now or it might be because our thoughts and mental activity are taking on a more solid and earthy basis.
We can see the same things happen with emotions. Strong emotions are linked to physical responses. The "Fight or Flight" instinct takes over in extreme emotional crisis. When our emotions get to high we are literally driven to physical action to get some type of relief from unbearable stress and pressure.
This principle can be used in a self empowering manner as well. When we understand that thoughts become emotions and emotions become actions we gain insight into how to achieve personal goals. It becomes obvious that we need to think about our goals. We need to think about them so much that they take on an life of their own and we become emotional enough to go out and physically achieve them.
If we have a goal and we are not emotional about it we will never achieve it. Our emotions carry us through dry spots and difficult times. They support us when we have no other support and they inspire others as well.
The last point is making our physical actions count. Think of a toddler learning how to walk. It is not easy and they fall down time after time but never give up. When they have physically tried enough times they gain the muscular coordination to walk and even run.
Can goal achievement and being successful be any different? I don't think so. Our first physical actions toward goal achievement will be failures because we don't know what it takes to succeed. We need lots of physical actions toward our goal until we gain competence and it becomes easy.
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This might not be true in the literal sense but it certainly seems to be true in the experiential sense. Thinking about something is both time investment and work. It uses energy and we become fatigued. Going to college or trying to figure out the taxes are examples of how draining hard mental work can be. The more we do the easier it gets for us. We are building our mental muscles up and finding new ways to use them.
With practice we can study longer and harder than we used to. This means that we are becoming competent and things that used to wear us out don't bother us any more. Becoming competent develops good self-esteem and confidence in our mental abilities. As we become more sure of ourselves and our abilities we express our emotions more. It might simply be because we are not so drained and have the emotional energy now or it might be because our thoughts and mental activity are taking on a more solid and earthy basis.
We can see the same things happen with emotions. Strong emotions are linked to physical responses. The "Fight or Flight" instinct takes over in extreme emotional crisis. When our emotions get to high we are literally driven to physical action to get some type of relief from unbearable stress and pressure.
This principle can be used in a self empowering manner as well. When we understand that thoughts become emotions and emotions become actions we gain insight into how to achieve personal goals. It becomes obvious that we need to think about our goals. We need to think about them so much that they take on an life of their own and we become emotional enough to go out and physically achieve them.
If we have a goal and we are not emotional about it we will never achieve it. Our emotions carry us through dry spots and difficult times. They support us when we have no other support and they inspire others as well.
The last point is making our physical actions count. Think of a toddler learning how to walk. It is not easy and they fall down time after time but never give up. When they have physically tried enough times they gain the muscular coordination to walk and even run.
Can goal achievement and being successful be any different? I don't think so. Our first physical actions toward goal achievement will be failures because we don't know what it takes to succeed. We need lots of physical actions toward our goal until we gain competence and it becomes easy.
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Who knows why one person gives up and dies while another struggles on through overwhelming odds and comes out on top? We all want to survive. But are we willing to do what needs to be done?
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