Today's Quote

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.” 

~Pearl S. Buck

There are a lot of things we aren’t going to want to do in life.

We won’t always want to get up and go to work–we might feel frustrated with what seems like a dead end job. We won’t always want to face people who hurt us–we might prefer to sit around stewing in negative feelings and bitterness about the past.

But doing is the first step toward changing something that isn’t working. Going to that job allows you to take care of yourself so you can work toward something better. Facing the people who hurt you gives you an opportunity to communicate your feelings and set boundaries to prevent future problems.

We can’t always feel positive things, but we can always choose to do something positive with what we feel.

Today if you’re feeling paralyzed by emotion, ask yourself these questions: once this feeling passes, as feelings often do, what will I want to feel in it’s place? What can I do now to create that feeling instead of sitting around waiting for it to come?