Matthew Ferry's Blog » how to be productive http://matthewferry.com/blog Happiness and Success: Taming The Drunk Monkey Fri, 24 May 2013 10:00:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 You Can’t Afford to be Angry http://matthewferry.com/blog/you-cant-afford-to-be-angry/ http://matthewferry.com/blog/you-cant-afford-to-be-angry/#comments Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:51:09 +0000 Matthew http://matthewferry.com/blog/?p=3067 Anger and fear are too expensive. You can’t afford to allow yourself to go into those emotions. And the truth is, anger, fear and doubt are based on an illusion that you are in some sort of danger. Now, if you’re reading this as a post, the bottom line is that you’re in a situation where you’re trying to get ahead, move forward. You’re trying to become something, create the life of your dreams. So, you’re not even in a dangerous situation.

Anger, fear, and doubt represent emotions that are designed to move you rapidly away from danger. Just start to get real. You’re not in danger. And when you’re in those states, you’re not effective. You’re not powerful. You’re not attractive. You’re not charismatic. You’re not pulling the things to you that you want to pull to you. So you’ve got to learn how to see the situation for what it really is rather than living in the delusions the drunk monkey sets forth.

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