How Depending on Your Mood Can Sabotage Your Success
The Mood Trap: How Letting Your Feelings Control Your Schedule Can Steal Your Future You don't always lose your goals through one terrible decision. Sometimes, you lose momentum through hundreds of tiny decisions to begin later. At 8:00 AM, you have a plan. You are going to study for an examination, finish an important project, learn a new skill, or build something that could change your future. You feel hopeful because the person you imagine becoming seems close enough to reach. At 10:00 AM, the work feels boring. At 11:00 AM, you check your phone. At noon, you decide to start after lunch. Later, you feel guilty about wasting time. You promise to make up for it tomorrow. Nothing catastrophic happened. You did not abandon your dream. You simply allowed your immediate feelings to repeatedly override your earlier intentions. This is the mood trap. It is not the existence of negative emotions that creates the problem. It is the habit of making important decisions according to whicheve...