Emotions & Finance

Passion is a great emotion to follow in our careers--and passion is just transmuted anger. Connecting to that anger gives us an inexhaustible fuel source to become an agent of change in the world.

Anger, like all emotions, is a source of information. This piece explores what anger is telling us about what is happening around us--violation of boundaries, injustice, or unmet expectations.

Many people struggle to identify what their unique gifts and strengths are, but our childhood provides a clue. Use this exercise to reflect on your childhood, and bring the unusual aptitudes you had as a kid into your adult life.

Being satisfied in one's career requires alignment between our knowledge, our functional skills, and our interpersonal skills. The latter--interpersonal skills, or how we relate to others--is often ignored, and we suffer because of it.

Creative and artistic people often feel a tension between making what they want to make, and making money. We can resolve this tension by first asking ourselves, "who are we serving?"

Many of us seek a flow state in our work. However, we often also encounter an emotional state I call the “panic state,” where nothing we do seems to work. By relaxing into the sense of overwhelm, and introducing small successes, we can gradually overcome the panic state.

We all understand the importance of feedback but few of us stop to recognize our own emotional experience as we are in the process of receiving feedback. Moreover, the absence of feedback itself can be lonely and isolating.

Once we identify what makes us happy and what stresses us out, we can start to bridge the gap between the two. Mindsets are a powerful tool to help us focus on the right things and make the decisions that serve us in the long run.

Work is a source of stress for most people, but some find work to be a source of joy. This post dives into some of the sources of joy that people derive from their work. Which ones resonate for you?

Work is stressful for most people, but it doesn't have to be. We can move from associating work with stress to associating it with joy by understanding the sources of both, and adopting a mindset that reinforces the work attitude we want to have.