Control Your Emotions:

How To Stop Self Destructive Habits

Every day.  Your heart says, “It’s ok.  It won’t matter that much.  It will all work out in the end.  Do it!”  Your intellect says, “Wait a minute.  Remember what your true goals and desires are.”  What am I talking about?  Every day the two halves that make up who you are, wage war on one another!

You need to see yourself as made up of two beings – the wise impulse and the self-destructive impulse.  Your job is to help your wise impulse dominate your self-destructive impulse in order to control your emotions.  Then you will be on your way to overcoming unhealthy habits and creating the health and lifestyle of your dreams.

If you have allowed your emotions to rule your actions, you’re quite likely not satisfied in certain areas of your life.  The heart can entice you in destructive directions…overeating, overdrinking, looking for love outside the relationship you’re in (or with someone else’s partner), losing your temper and thinking it’s merited.  My goodness, the list goes on and on.

Your destructive impulse (and mine) is a great liar!  It leads you to believe that the consequences won’t be big, they won’t have that big of an impact, others won’t get hurt or pay a cost, your health won’t suffer that much…ppfft!  Lies.

If you want work well with others, lead your company or business in a way that inspires others, pay attention to that small, noble voice.  As you act on the honorable urges instant of the cravings that satisfy instant gratification, others will perceive you as wise, trustworthy and respectable.

Treat this quest to make wise decisions as a war.  You need to know your enemy and it’s goals.  Your negative impulse IS your enemy.  It tries to obstruct your path to greater health, happiness and wealth.  The empowering perspective is that the more you listen to the wise impulses, the easier it becomes.

You must decide who is going to lead.