The quality of your life is determined by the quality of the emotions you can sustain over time.

Your emotional state affect everything about your life, and quite often we don’t take the time to sit with ourselves and ask ourselves questions like:

• How would I like to feel on a daily basis?
• How can I learn how to maintain a more enjoyable emotional state?
• How do my emotions affect my business and the the amount of money I’m bringing in?
• Do I feel confident in myself to show up powerfully whenever I need to be “on my game”?

It takes work to show up in a powerful emotional state. And quite often external circumstances can dramatically affect our emotions, such as a hurricane about to hit South Florida where I live.

But you get to write the story about how you show up, you get to write the story of how you want to respond when life gets tough, but it takes doing the work and practicing on a daily basis so that when things go wrong, you can continue to respond and make sound decisions.

So a couple more questions for you today would be:

• In the past, how have you handled yourself in times of crisis?
  • You could consider heartbreak another time of crisis if that’s easier for you to connect to.
• What did you do in the moment back then to get yourself into a more empowered emotional state?
  • For instance did you take time to sleep, meditate, dance or did you somehow avoid the problem?
• What tools are you aware of now that you could use to increase your emotional state moving forward?
• How can you practice these tools daily and incorporate them into your daily routine.

One that you can add to your daily morning routine is energy maintenance. Use the energy protection prayer on this page every morning as you brush your teeth.