Business has no place for negative emotions
Negative Emotions = me deciding to shoot myself in the foot
Things go wrong. Things break. Clients complain. Contracts fail. It’s part of the risk we signed up for, and should not be a surprise when they happen.
I should not be upset when something happens that I knew could occur. Indeed, these negative emotions will only serve to damage my own business.
If I let myself get upset, angry, or frustrated about it, then it’ll distract me from the work at hand and cloud my judgement for all other decisions. And then there’ll soon be more issues, but this time I’ve created them myself through poor judgement.
By allowing negative emotions in, I’m damaging my own business and ruining my own day. It’s up to me to decide which way things will go.
We are not all robots though
Emotion is instinctive. Negative emotions will not disappear on their own.
The aim is to be conscious of the damaging effect of negative emotions in business and take action to reduce it. Some businesspeople find things like mindfulness very beneficial. For others, it’s fitness and taking care of themselves. For some it’s just being conscious never to indulge a negative emotion that arises, it’s only going to damage their own productivity.
Real business is not like TV. There’s no place for negative emotions in business, they only serve to cloud your judgement.
