Feeling Emotional? 5 Qs to Unlock Your Funk

Hindsight is a beautiful thing, would you agree?

All too often, you feel wise after the event, right?

After you have blown up at someone else perhaps…

After you realised it was never their intention to hurt you…

After…

But what if you could be more proactive about managing your emotions?

Well, maybe not managing them… but managing yourself more effectively so that you’re more prepared next time, more in control and ultimately, happier with your response.

Here are 5 simple questions to help you check in more regularly to see how you’re feeling:

1. What is angering or frustrating me most right now?

2. What am I holding onto that I need to release?

3. How am I allowing myself to adopt stressful behaviours?

4. What negative thoughts about myself, or my abilities, am I using to keep me safe?

5. How can I bring more joy into my world this minute?

And, because I’m me, here are a couple more questions you can ask yourself if you do have an emotional flare up to get you back on track:

1. What is this emotion firing up for? What is it trying to teach me?

2. How do I choose to respond right now?*

*Remember you always have a choice over your response.

Happy self-reflecting!

Rebecca x

Rebecca Allen, Chief Illumination Officer of Illuminate Personal Growth, works with professional women to help them take their careers to the next level. If you are feeling underwhelmed by your lack of career progress, looking for support and encouragement and keen to learn new skills to improve your prospects, then you’re in the right place. We provide online career courses, courses for women, live workshops and leadership trainings in Sydney as well as 1-1 executive coaching. Check out our signature virtual course The Career Accelerator Game Plan – in 6 weeks you could be in a whole new place!

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