Forget How You Feel
Monday, January 8, 2007 at 12:49
Mark Forster

There is an excellent post today by Adrian Savage on lifehack.org entitled “To be motivated and successful, first forget how you feel.”

You can’t make yourself feel happy or sad, nor can you send away whatever feelings do have, however hard you try. So waiting to do something until you feel “in the mood,” or basing your choice of actions on how you feel at the time, is to hand over control of your life to the varying state of your stomach, the effect of the weather, or the dizzying gyrations of your love life. Forget about your emotions. They’re no sensible basis for living well or pursuing a successful career.

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