Your Value is Critical to Creating Value
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After food, shelter, and sleep, the most fundamental human need is to feel valued. Whenever we feel our value is under threat, we move into fight or flight, our pre-frontal cortex shuts down, and we become more reactive. When our value is at risk, one of the most common moves is to try to get it back by diminishing the value of others. Everyone loses. Understanding what consistently prompts negative emotions is the first key to taking back control of our emotions.

It is only once you get a grasp on how you are feeling and what's causing it that you can take steps toward making changes. Find some great tips and ideas below for taking control of your emotions in order to improve relationships and become more effective at work and at home.

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Tony Schwartz

How Your Value is Critical to Creating Value

Twenty five years ago, the New York Times Magazine ran an extraordinary article titled "How Do Tobacco Executives Live With Themselves?" by Roger Rosenblatt. At the end, he quoted an executive named Victor Crawford who worked for five years as a lobbyist for the Tobacco Institute and helped defeat a series of anti-smoking bills.

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Top Tips for Taking Control of Your Emotions

  1. When you sense you’re getting frustrated, annoyed, or anxious, apply “The Golden Rule of Triggers”: whatever you feel compelled to do, don't. Instead, take a deep breath in to a count of 3, out to a count of 6.
  2. We can’t change what happens to us, but we can make a choice about how to respond. When something happens that makes you feel bad, ask if there's a more hopeful and empowering story you can tell without denying the facts?
  3. Write a note of appreciation once a week to someone in your life. Be very specific about what is that you appreciate.

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It takes less than ninety seconds for limbic system programs to be triggered, surge throughout the body, and then be completely flushed out of our systems. If you stay angry after ninety seconds, it's because you've chosen to stay angry."

 

-Jill Bolte Taylor,
Author,
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We're far quicker to notice what's wrong than to celebrate what's right in others.

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      THE ENERGY QUADRANTS
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The Energy Quadrants

The more aware we are of our feelings, the easier they are to control.
Set aside two or three specific times during the day to ask yourself what quadrant you're in. If it's one of the negative left-hand quadrants, take a moment and think about what put you there.