Happy last day of Leo season! August is my birthday month so it’s inevitably one of my favorite months of the year. Last year for my 30th Birthday I posted a blog looking back on the 30 Life Lessons Learned by Age 30 . Last years post was a reflection on the lessons learned thus far.
Thirty-one, however, looks a little different for me. This year is all about maintaining my happiness and health while continuing to flourish and grow. Instead of reflecting on the past, I wanted to create a post with something that can inspire me to be a better version of myself, something that my thirty-two year old self will thank me for later. So in light of turning another year older and another year wiser, I decided to make a blog post on the importance of practicing a concept that will help not only me, but others be more successful in all areas of life.
Whether it is a successful relationship, marriage, career, or one’s fitness/health, I started to think what is it that makes a person successful? Although I can agree that there are several factors and layers to being successful, I couldn’t help but going back to a concept that plays a very important role with every area of success…
Balancing Logic with Emotion
Let’s talk about this.
Logic by definition is: reason or sound judgment, as in utterances or actions.
Emotion by definition is: an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness. Any of the feelings of joy, sorrow, fear, hate, love, etc.
The principles that make someone successful are the same. Successful people, powerful people understand how to use logic and emotion together. They take the right actions because they know how to actually direct their emotion to where they want it to go. So how can we apply this to everyday life? What does this look like? This means not being a slave to our emotions. It means not waking up each day the mercy of whatever emotion comes into our mind that day. This concept isn’t about removing emotion, but understanding how to control your emotions as your power. Emotions are not only necessary and essential, but they are the greatest driver we will ever have in life–so let’s learn to master them.
Balancing logic with emotion will be a strong tool to use in every area of my life. For the next year, my goal is to not allow emotion to dictate everything. The next time I want to react based on what I am feeling, I plan on using a little more logic–that little voice in my head that’s telling me what I should be doing to get the result I want! All action comes from emotion. The only difference between people is some people know how to manage their emotion to make it work for them and other people work for their emotions. You have to decide which one of those two people you want to be…
Kyla Benson 