Becoming a source of emotional energy

We often delude ourselves that haste helps us achieve our goals. In most cases it does not. Where do we go wrong and what is the right attitude instead?

At the end of a workday it happens that you feel extremely tired, with no energy left to do anything, not even to do some sports or perhaps prepare dinner.

The cause of so much fatigue is often attributed to psychological factors and mismanagement of emotions and energy: feeling exhausted is the physical manifestation of a neurological state that involves everyone’s entire emotional, and ultimately, energetic sphere.

There is no intelligence without emotion. There can be emotion without a lot of intelligence, but that is beyond us.

Ezra Pound

This happens because when faced with external pressures, always perceived as dangers or threats, we respond with an attitude, instinctive, primal defense and attack. Neurological studies show how emotions are driven by physical mechanisms-rather than by rationality-through the production of hormones that trigger a series of emotional responses that are also recognizable on the physical plane (e.g., accelerated heartbeat, muscle contractions, even to the loss of focus on the goal to be achieved).

Emotions and the reactions they trigger can become a “polluting” factor capable of contaminating the best intentions and work efforts to the point of dissipating all energy. An amusing but useful episode to make people think about the problems caused by the mismanagement of emotions is offered by Il Cinema Insegna, a rich archive of film pills for educational purposes, in a scene from the film “Aspiring Widower. “
The protagonist, a frustrated and stressed store owner, demonstrates how poor management of his role and workflows can cause dizzying drops in energy.

Managing emotions in business: the ten “tactics” to avoid

Inbusiness, emotions often do not find their place and remain cut off, from any management criteria, leaving room for instinct and randomness.

Many bosses, probably even unknowingly, use the negative emotions of fear, anger and defensiveness as a stimulus to action to get the desired results from employees.

External pressure acts as a polluting factor and induces exaggerated reactions, sometimes reckless and even counterproductive to the ultimate goal, but it is also necessary to question the short- and medium-term effects caused by negative emotions.

Continuous exposure to strong negative emotions results in a lowering of cognitive power by 30-40% for a duration of about 40-60 minutesfromexposure to the “threat” in the short term. And in the long term, an increased incidence of health problems is demonstrated.

What leader behaviors can make a worker feel under attack and thus lower the emotional energy level?

1. Addressing disrespectful words undermines the deep need for security
2. Treating people unfairly conflicts with the pursuit of welfare and security
3. Not listening disregards the need for importance and creates detachment between the leader and the workers, and also between the actions and the set goals
4. Failure to express appreciation dampens the processes of continuous improvement and growth
5. Robbing workers of their work demolishes the fiduciary relationship
6. Leaving employees without feedback causes severe disorientation
7. Showing disinterest in the work you oversee results in a decrease in attention to activities that are perceived to be of little consequence
8. Accusing or criticizing triggers a continuous search for the guilty, a continuous attack on people rather than on problems
9. Setting impossible deadlines produces stress and results in a deep sense of inadequacy
10. To debase others in order to increase one’s own worth is the sum total of the disabling attitudes, the one that in one fell swoop covers the whole sphere of fears and negative emotions listed in the previous points.

The decisions we make every day depend on the emotional state we find ourselves in.
We cannot disregard them, for ourselves and for those around us.
It is emotions that make us make some choices or others.
For the Lean Lifestyle Leader raising emotional energy therefore becomes a key step in increasing and making personal and business productivity sustainable over time.

The appearance of things varies according to emotions; and so we see magic and beauty in them, but, in fact, magic and beauty are in us.

Kahlil Gibran