How we feel about doing something may determine the quality of work you put into it. How we feel may determine the value we place on a person, place, or thing. Often you can tell how a person feels about themselves by the way they take care of and treat themselves. Depression can rob a person of their self-worth and cause them to neglect their hygiene and grooming. In fact, I would suggest that you can determine how someone feels about almost anything by observing the value they place, or fail to place, upon it at any given time.
Some of us have been told to abandon our feelings so much that we don’t realize that everything we have substituted for our feelings also involve feelings. Just because something has been numbed, doesn’t mean that it is not there. Our feelings may not always be logical, and they can work for or against us. I have seen intelligent and capable people hinder their progress and success because they were unable to understand or discipline their feelings.
Discipline is the key to success! Those with explosive tempers will be ruled by their anger if they fail to rule themselves. Those who ‘feel’ that no one cares about them will be ruled by the drive to find love unless they can find a way to heal the emotional wounds of hurt and abandonment. Emotional discipline is not beating yourself into submission with a whip and chains to control your feelings. On the contrary, emotional discipline can be having the courage to remove the chains and stop beating yourself up. I often thought of discipline as something that involved harshness but there is a degree of success that can only be achieved by kindness. Your feelings are important and essential to your success. Don’t dismiss them! Manage them or they will manage you!