If there’s one thing that distinguishes successful from unsuccessful people, it’s one’s ability to take action despite of negative emotions.
Here’s the general thinking error many people make:
Successful people are somehow cut from a different cloth than me, they are gifted and born with something that I don’t have. They don’t have the same anxiety, self-doubt and the problems that I have.
This couldn’t be further from the truth.
The only difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful people don’t let their negative emotions, fear and self-doubt hold them back from taking action and being proactive. They simply take action despite of their negative emotions.
Being successful means:
– Being scared and nevertheless doing cold calls every day
– Having doubts and nevertheless finishing your product
– Feeling lazy and nevertheless working 12 hours a day
– Feeling like giving up and continuing despite of it
There’s no room for feelings or emotions in business. Just because you are anxious, depressed, lazy and have self-doubt, that doesn’t mean you can’t take action. One of the most important skills you have to learn is to take action despite of your emotional state.
Most unsuccessful people wait until their negative emotions go away before taking action, hence they procrastinate their whole lives and never build the life they really want. They believe they need to feel self-confident, productive and happy in order to take action.
The truth is your emotions and actions don’t have to be aligned.
Acting is one thing and feeling is another thing.
You can feel like shit and still take action. Feel depressed and still do something proactive. You can feel scared and still do the things that need to get done. Your actions can be completely autonomous from your emotional state and your feelings.
Once you learn to detach your actions from your feelings and you realise the barrier was just in your head and there’s nothing holding you back from taking action when you have negative emotions, you literally gain control over your life and become unstoppable.
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