Your Survival Guide To Emotional Investments

Emotional investments are the bedrock of your self-esteem.

They are what you use to define meaning in life.

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1 Of The Biggest Mistakes People Make Is Emotionally Investing Into The Wrong Things.

And then they wonder why their self-esteem is in permanent chaos.

They built their “jenga tower” on things that can be rug-pulled at any second.

It’s what causes an existential crisis.

When the things you invested in don’t play out the way you expected them to, it messes with your sense of reality.

However, it isn’t their fault.

Reality is reality.

It’s your fault for expecting things to be different.

It’s your fault for giving so much of yourself to things that haven’t proven themselves.

This is equivalent to being an emotional whore.

Throwing your emotional investment at anything that keeps your feel-good fantasy going.

Blindly indulging in emotion is for fools.

Indiscriminate vulnerability will ruin you.

When you do this, you’ll always feel good about yourself because no one can take these things away from you.

As long as you invest into these emotional bank accounts daily, you’ll ALWAYS have something in them.

Regardless of the external ups-and-downs, your bank accounts stay solid.

Life feels a lot richer when you have a stronger emotional base to refer to.

When this framework is strong, you contain your reactions to the wrong things.

Diversify your emotional investments so you don’t rely on fickle things for meaning or support.

This protects your emotional body from getting pulled into crazy and preventable situations.

You want to train your mind to be stronger than your feelings.

It’s what allows you to operate with clarity.

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Enjoy.
-M.I.