Emotions & Finance

This is the first in a nine-part series exploring how basic financial concepts can be applied to personal growth and development.

This post explores how certain types of suffering—like rejection, uncertainty, and voluntary discomfort—can build resilience and emotional strength. By leaning into discomfort rather than avoiding it, we unlock growth, adaptability, and a sense of unfazed confidence in facing life's challenges.

This post explores why most people work—often driven by fear, pressure, or rewards—and examines the quiet power of working without external motivators. It delves into the 'gray zone' of motivation, where consistency and identity take over when inspiration fades.

The things we have always dreamed of doing but have never done say something about the type of person we want to become. Since change is scary, we avoid the work of becoming a different kind of person. Embracing the dream points the pathway of growth for us.

Rather than treating fear as a negative emotion, we can use fear as a guide. Fear denotes risk, which is usually accompanied by reward or the potential for gain. By attacking the scariest tasks, we also unlock the highest potential reward.

This post explores the fear of not being good enough as we rise in our careers or lives. It discusses how self-doubt can lead to procrastination and avoidance, and offers insights on accepting this fear to build courage and act.

Many people feel paralyzed by fear. Fear is often connected to the future, about what can go wrong. By connecting to the present, we can free ourselves to take action, which melts the fear.

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.