You Can't Make A Decision Without This
Emotion wins over facts. Every time!
This is an unusual post for unusual times. At the end, I will invite your participation in next week’s Postcard.
This week, I’m focused on emotions. You’d think that by now I’d be used to the news, but I continue to be outraged all over again, every day. It’s hard to meet my goal of staying positive.
A friend of mine said something recently that helped me see what’s going on. Janet Granger gives workshops on strategy and marketing for business leaders, and two of her books are about her experience working with different generations. She understands how we react to the messages all around us.
She said,
All of our (human) decision-making faculties lie in the area of the brain that controls our emotions. That is, neurologically speaking, it is the emotional part of the brain that drives all our decisions.
This means that people make all their decisions emotionally. They need to feel “comfortable” deciding one way or another.
Now that the world’s a different place with each morning’s news, I’m making decisions all the time, decisions that must somehow make me feel “comfortable”. That’s a lot of emotional stress.
Once I wrote a post about the American quilting bee, about how it was spirit-lifting to meet with distant neighbors and work together piecing cloth. I’m sure they were eager to share news as well as the emotions that went along with it.
Today I’d like to invite the readers of this post to take part in piecing together my next Postcard. Please take a minute to send me an email (press Reply on the lower left, after this post) with just one or two sentences about how you are feeling now as an American.
How do you feel about the daily news?
How do you balance being informed with the emotions that can result?
What gives you positive energy?
In my next Postcard I will summarize the comments I receive - with no contributors’ names - so that we can learn how other readers are feeling and how they are managing. In this way, we can offer to each other, anonymously, the renewal of hope that comes from community.
Please share.
Looking forward,
