“If you don’t have a mindset that understands the impact of the dynamic of emotions, you will never understand your responsibility,” Zebthe3rd.  Let’s tie these last few day’s pieces together.  My overarching message, as always, is about our mindset.  The greatest thing we have control over is our thoughts and we become our thoughts because they manifest into our reality.  The things we do, where we focus our energy is what grows.  Energy flows where intention goes.  The universe responds to energy—and that includes the energy of our emotions and developing our capacity.  We have to break this down to the most basic of lessons: emotions determine our mentality and that can always change.  We can’t make emotional decisions because we will get long term consequences from a temporary mindset.  We need to know who we are and how we handle adversity and success, we need to know the markers of what success is to us, we need to know the goal.  Our responsibility is to our purpose and we don’t know our purpose and we certainly can’t fulfill our purpose (we can’t honor what we aren’t aware or) if we allow emotion to dictate our actions.  The point and purpose become skewed by how we feel.

Mindset creates the laser focus to bring us closer to our goal and we don’t want to confuse the universe with constantly making decisions, second-guessing decisions because we feel different things at different points throughout the day.  We need to be better stewards of our emotional state.  If we can’t garner control over our emotional state we will have to face the consequences of emotional decisions—and from there we create a spiral.  I can attest to living a life ruled by emotions.  I thought it was just who I was and that I was meant to feel things deeply.  I thought everyone made choices based off of how they felt.  I didn’t realize for decades that we have a say in how we use those emotions.  They don’t run us.  Sure, experience will tell us what we “should” feel based on what we have felt before.  That doesn’t mean we need to continue feeling that way.  It doesn’t mean we can’t make a different decision.  We are meant to learn that our actions created a specific result and if we want a different result, we have to try something else.  We can’t get hung up on things needing to be a certain way in order for us to feel a certain way.  The truth is, there are things we do that would make us feel entirely uncomfortable but that is exactly what we need to do to get what we want.  We have to get out of our comfort zone, we have to manage what we think and what we decide—we manage how we feel.  That will tell us the options we have available to us.