Fear, dissatisfaction, unhappiness and many other negative emotions can be extraordinarily unpleasant but, aside from the power of love, there are few motivators as powerful.
The key to turning your darkest feelings into catapulting good lies in how you choose to respond.
If you're afraid of a future that you dread and you're paralyzed by it, in addition to falling under the spell of wrongly used imagination, you're a sitting duck. Inevitably, bad will come. There is no such thing as inaction here, by remaining locked inside your fears you feed them and condition your mind to notice only that which confirms them. As a result, you become incapable of recognizing opportunities and solutions.
By contrast, if you use your fear to motivate you to be proactive, to be open to solutions, to force you out of your comfort zone and into the limitless possibilities that always abound, you make it your servant.
Our most negative experiences and feelings make magnificent servants and tyrannical masters. You have the power to choose, at any moment, to assume power over negative emotion and use it to bring out the very best in you.
The idealist in me would like to tell you that the accomplishments I am most proud of were born of my inherent high motivation and joyful intentions. They weren't. It took me many years to develop positivity driven motivation. For most of us, and myself still sometimes, we relax and enjoy the sunny days.
The greatest achievements of my life were born of fear, strife, dissatisfaction, dire need or the white hot motivator, "I must do this to give____________________ (insert name of a person or cause) a better life."
There is great power in every negative experience, use it.
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