Emotional Roller Coaster Work From Home
Today Id like to talk to you about the important of staying emotionally even keel. You know Ive said it a few times, Im the product of a whole lot of mentorship and mentors that Ive been really fortunate and blessed to have been able to be in contact with over the years.
Ive learned so many things from each and every one of those mentors and one thing that my mentor, Sam Orum taught me some time ago, quite awhile ago actually, it was about the importance of knowing how to navigate the emotional rollercoaster on your way to success.
What I mean by that is that anytime you look at someone thats achieved a great level of success, one of the reasons why theres so much respect for that person, especially by other people who have done it or who are on that same path is that they understand what that person has had to endure and go through to get to that point.
Very rarely, almost never will you hear of a story of someone who just sets out to be immensely successful and it just happens and thats the end of it.
Even people who appear to be very young or the success appears to have happened to them seemingly overnight to the outside world, most of the time when you really know the behind the scenes story, you will see a person who has probably been working on that for years and they became successful at the point of their hard work intersecting with the right opportunity at the right time.
So, when you look at the emotional roller coaster, you know whatever path to success that you are on individually, very likely you will go through a lot of ups and downs while youre on that path. You know you may get started in a new business so now youre excited and youre on a high.
Then maybe something happens that keeps your business from starting off as quickly or as well as you would like so maybe you have an emotional dip. Then you get your first couple of sales, your first couple of clients, your first couple of recruits, then your emotions go back up.
Then maybe you have an organization, maybe somebody quits your organization or maybe you put 1,000 bucks into your account with your business and then your car has to go in the shop for 1,500 bucks and you go back down.
This emotional up and down is something that happens to pretty much everybody that is striving for something extraordinary because when youre on a non-traditional path, life does not stop and wait for you to get to the point that youre trying to reach.
It will keep happening and a lot of times when people quit, it is because they have been taken out by some of the lows and the secret to this is really staying very emotionally even keel because sometimes hitting a really low emotionally point is a product of allowing yourself to get a little bit too celebratory about something good that has happened.
You think, Finally, its about to be my time. When something bad happens, what happens is that a lot of that old self and limiting thoughts start to come back and you start to think that maybe this isnt going to work for me. Maybe its not going to happen.
So, if you would learn to stay emotionally even keel where you are happy about the small wins that you have along the way but you dont get so overexcited that youre setting yourself up to huge disappointment and when something bad does happen, youre able to look at it objectively and just kind of focus on Well what is it thats going to get me through this? What is it that needs to be done to solve this problem as opposed to be taken way down into the pits? As they would say, Emotionally being taken out of the game.
Stay emotionally even keel and that really is something that will be very critical and almost necessary to you being able to retain your sanity as you are building whatever dream you are making into a reality for yourself and your family.
Whatever that is, I really do wish you the best on that. Just make sure that youre being even keel throughout it and that youre not getting too excited or too down in the dumps no matter what happens because life does not stop because we want to be a huge success. Please remember that and the best of luck in whatever it is that youre doing.
Ive learned so many things from each and every one of those mentors and one thing that my mentor, Sam Orum taught me some time ago, quite awhile ago actually, it was about the importance of knowing how to navigate the emotional rollercoaster on your way to success.
What I mean by that is that anytime you look at someone thats achieved a great level of success, one of the reasons why theres so much respect for that person, especially by other people who have done it or who are on that same path is that they understand what that person has had to endure and go through to get to that point.
Very rarely, almost never will you hear of a story of someone who just sets out to be immensely successful and it just happens and thats the end of it.
Even people who appear to be very young or the success appears to have happened to them seemingly overnight to the outside world, most of the time when you really know the behind the scenes story, you will see a person who has probably been working on that for years and they became successful at the point of their hard work intersecting with the right opportunity at the right time.
So, when you look at the emotional roller coaster, you know whatever path to success that you are on individually, very likely you will go through a lot of ups and downs while youre on that path. You know you may get started in a new business so now youre excited and youre on a high.
Then maybe something happens that keeps your business from starting off as quickly or as well as you would like so maybe you have an emotional dip. Then you get your first couple of sales, your first couple of clients, your first couple of recruits, then your emotions go back up.
Then maybe you have an organization, maybe somebody quits your organization or maybe you put 1,000 bucks into your account with your business and then your car has to go in the shop for 1,500 bucks and you go back down.
This emotional up and down is something that happens to pretty much everybody that is striving for something extraordinary because when youre on a non-traditional path, life does not stop and wait for you to get to the point that youre trying to reach.
It will keep happening and a lot of times when people quit, it is because they have been taken out by some of the lows and the secret to this is really staying very emotionally even keel because sometimes hitting a really low emotionally point is a product of allowing yourself to get a little bit too celebratory about something good that has happened.
You think, Finally, its about to be my time. When something bad happens, what happens is that a lot of that old self and limiting thoughts start to come back and you start to think that maybe this isnt going to work for me. Maybe its not going to happen.
So, if you would learn to stay emotionally even keel where you are happy about the small wins that you have along the way but you dont get so overexcited that youre setting yourself up to huge disappointment and when something bad does happen, youre able to look at it objectively and just kind of focus on Well what is it thats going to get me through this? What is it that needs to be done to solve this problem as opposed to be taken way down into the pits? As they would say, Emotionally being taken out of the game.
Stay emotionally even keel and that really is something that will be very critical and almost necessary to you being able to retain your sanity as you are building whatever dream you are making into a reality for yourself and your family.
Whatever that is, I really do wish you the best on that. Just make sure that youre being even keel throughout it and that youre not getting too excited or too down in the dumps no matter what happens because life does not stop because we want to be a huge success. Please remember that and the best of luck in whatever it is that youre doing.