CHARACTER BUILDING: Exercising for Strength (emotionally)

… continued from last post

This is a tricky one because more than all the other dimensions, this one has the potential to hijack us to bad places. It also has the potential to empower us beyond measure because of passion … so let’s start with passion.

What are you passionate about? What do you care about? What gets you excited? Don’t know? Then find it or create it. Just make a choice and then give your heart to it so that it becomes a focal point (focal points fall under Spiritual …. But work with me on this for now).

Our emotions are powerful influencers of our life so let’s do two things:
1. Make them as powerful as possible;
2. Make them work FOR and NOT AGAINST us.

As discussed in a previous post, passion can be fueled by at least 3 things … but this time let me refer to them as 3 exercises for building emotional strength:
1. Be purposeful … do things with intention and for a reason;
2. Follow your strengths … do things which make you feel alive when you do them;
3. Calling … allow yourself to follow the thing that “calls” you (because you can’t help it)

These things alone will actually strengthen your emotions.

PICK ONE and just do it. Consider it like time in the gym in that it will exercise and strengthen your emotional resolve.

You might be tempted to think to yourself that it is way more complicated than this ... and you would be mistaken ... not everything that we need to do for ourselves is complicated; they can be easy. This doesn't need to be hard s don't make it hard. Just make it a process.

Come back Saturday for the final part of this thread ... exercising for our spiritual side.

Blessings Viphilus,

Your friend, Omega Man

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* Viphilus means, "lover of life"