Being in Control in Challenging Situations
What if we could know with greater certainty how we will react in a given situation, planned for it and when emotions hit, we responded in the best way?
It could be helpful and valuable to understand what affective forecasting is and why it can it be helpful to your stress levels and reputation.
“It is your ability to predict your emotions in future situations,” says Ryan Martin, Ph.D., TEDx speaker, author and “Anger Professor” on social media, elaborating that “Do you know how you’re gonna feel…” when any strong emotional moment happens?
You can see how that might be beneficial to pay attention to and learn. It could prevent a lot of problems, big ones and help guide us towards the better decisions.
“Here’s why it matters,” Martin says in a Tik Tok video post that can also be seen on his Instagram page.
“If you grant the premise that your emotions in a given moment are going to predict your behavior in that given moment, and what you’re feeling is gonna influence what you do, you may have the best intentions in the world and you plan ahead for what you’re gonna do in a particular situation but what you don’t account for is your feelings, which end up overriding those plans.”
There is a reason there is a term called emotional drivers. Whether positive or negative emotions, they drive our impulses and decisions. At times, we may not even pay attention to what we’re doing that we are happy with or if we thought about it, wouldn’t want ourselves to do.
There is good news, Martin says.
“But if you can predict your emotions, you can better plan ahead,” he suggests.
Consider, if you will, how that can effectively act as powerful risk management and keep each of us in increased control of our decisions instead of being victims to them.
That makes us stronger in the more challenging or dangerous moments we encounter and provides safety from behavior that we may come to regret.
Michael Toebe writes “Reputation Notes” and is the founder and specialist at Reputation Quality, a practice that serves and assists successful people and organizations in further building reputation as an asset and responsibly, ethically protecting, restoring or reconstructing it.
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