As the felt response to a given situation, emotions play a key part in your reactions. When you’re in tune with them, you have access to important knowledge that helps with:<ul><li>decision-making</li><li>relationship success</li><li>day-to-day interactions</li></ul>

Emotions control reactions

“Emotions make our lives exciting, unique, and vibrant,” Botnick says. “Strong feelings can signify that we embrace life fully, that we’re not repressing our natural reactions.”Emotions that regularly get out of hand might lead to:<ul><li>relationship or friendship conflict</li><li>difficulty relating to others</li><li>trouble at work or school</li><li>an urge to use substances to help manage your emotions</li><li>physical or emotional outbursts</li></ul>

Take a look at the impact of your emotions

When you suppress or repress emotions, you’re preventing yourself from experiencing and expressing feelings. This can happen consciously (suppression) or unconsciously (repression).Either can contribute to mental and physical health symptoms, including:<ul><li>anxiety</li><li>depression</li><li>sleep issues</li><li>muscle tension and pain</li><li>difficulty managing stress</li><li>substance misuse</li></ul> Healthy emotional expression involves finding some balance between overwhelming emotions and no emotions at all.

Aim for regulation, not repression

<ul><li>What am I feeling right now? (disappointed, confused, furious)</li><li>What happened to make me feel this way? (They brushed me off with no explanation.)</li><li>Does the situation have a different explanation that might make sense? (Maybe they’re stressed, sick, or dealing with something else they don’t feel comfortable explaining. They might plan to explain more when they can.)</li><li>What do I want to do about these feelings? (Scream, vent my frustration by throwing things, text back something rude.)</li><li>Is there a better way of coping with them? (Ask if everything’s OK. Ask when they’re free next. Go for a walk or run.)</li></ul>

3. Identify what you’re feeling

Emotions get the best of everyone sometimes, but there are a few things you can do to take back control.

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Once you know what you want to achieve, you can set <a href="https://hotmart.com/en/blog/affiliates/how-to-set-goals">goals </a>more efficiently. Having well-established goals and tracking their progress is one of the best ways to increase your self-motivation. When setting goals, it’s a good idea to make sure that they’re <a href="https://hotmart.com/en/blog/smart-goals">SMART goals </a>. This means setting specific and measurable goals that are attainable, realistic and time-bound. But setting goals is not enough, you also need to track them and celebrate your achievements.

Set A Goal

Free yourself from ideas that can be seen as self-destructive or insulting. Don’t overwhelm your mind with negative thinking that does nothing but bring you down. Here are some tips that can help you think positive :<ol><li>Look for your own strengths; </li><li>Use positive self-talk. Adopt more positive language in your inner monologue. For example, instead of “I messed up and made another mistake”, you can say “that’s okay, I’ll do better next time!”; </li><li>Keep in touch with people who motivate you and avoid those who bring you down; </li><li>Trust in your ability to perform the tasks that were given to you. </li></ol>

Change the focus of what you’re thinking. 

Nobody wants to make mistakes, but we all do. Mistakes happen whether we want them to or not. And that’s fine! Making mistakes is healthy.  As an inevitable part of life, what matters most is how we deal with mistakes. They can get you down or they can be an opportunity to learn and improve. They’re how we’re able to figure out different ways to perform our tasks more efficiently. Ultimately, mistakes help us grow as people.  But to grow, you need to learn from your mistakes and embrace them!

Don’t be afraid to make mistakes

Desire and initiative are two essential characteristics of self-motivation. You need to wish to be motivated again and you need to try to change when you’re thinking about giving up. Learning something every day is a great tool to be self-motivated whenever it is necessary. The more information and knowledge we have about a topic, the more <a href="https://hotmart.com/en/blog/online-authority">authority </a>, and self-confidence we have. This makes that we truly believe in our potential and what we’re doing.

Learn something every day.

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The “Zeigarnik Effect” is the principle that unfinished tasks are harder to get out of your brain than are tasks that haven’t been started. This means that starting a project — even if you work on it for just 10 minutes — will make it harder for your brain to forget or dismiss it. If you find yourself daydreaming instead of getting started, set a timer for 10 minutes and do something (anything!) during that time. Once you start, the big, scary project will turn into an unfinished task — meaning your brain will latch onto it and figure out how to get it done. Write down your major priorities at the beginning of each day. This is a great way to block out annoying distractions and periodically refocus your attention. A daily focus list — a short, bulleted outline of three major and three secondary priorities — isn’t just a “to-do list”; rather, it’s a grounding tool that keeps your head out of the clouds and focused on what’s really important. (Download an example of a <a href="https://www.additudemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/My-Daily-Focus.pdf">daily focus list </a>.) Racing thoughts and hyperactive imaginations mean that ADHD brains are easily thrown off course by passing thoughts about dry cleaning or returning Aunt Linda’s phone call. Deal with sidetracking thoughts — and the anxiety they can create — with a “parking lot,” an easily accessible place to dump unneeded thoughts until a more appropriate time. The parking lot could be a notebook you carry in your purse, or a post-it note stuck to your desk; whatever it is, it will save you stress and keep your focus unbroken.

1. Remember the Zeigarnik Effect.

Write down your major priorities at the beginning of each day. This is a great way to block out annoying distractions and periodically refocus your attention. A daily focus list — a short, bulleted outline of three major and three secondary priorities — isn’t just a “to-do list”; rather, it’s a grounding tool that keeps your head out of the clouds and focused on what’s really important.

Use a “daily focus list.”  

When the ADHD brain gets stressed, it jumps into fight or flight mode. This looks like a lack of motivation: You abandon your piles of laundry or half-done taxes and binge-watch Netflix instead. Break this cycle by identifying the triggers that cause you to feel overwhelmed. For some, it’s hunger; for others, it’s too many conflicting priorities. Getting a handle on what causes your overwhelm won’t be enough to deter it every time, but you’ll be better equipped to anticipate its arrival and plan accordingly.

Identify your “overwhelm” triggers.  

ADHD comes with plenty of superpowers (like hyperfocus), but you can’t always predict when they’ll kick in. Respect your brain! Recognizing when you’re “in the zone” — and able to tackle tasks that require attention and focus — is just as important as recognizing when your brain is in a fog. When you’re totally out of it, give yourself permission to shift your attention to less-demanding tasks, like filing papers or folding socks. You’ll get more done in the long run!

Go with your flow — not just the flow.  

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