How do our emotions affect us at work?

Work is the place where we spend a large part of our day to day and where we can feel more intense and frequent emotions. We tend to understand that these emotions can harm us in a professional sense. or that our work or relationships within the company are not worthwhile because they are tainted by stress, anxiety, conflicts and insecurity.

However, the problem is not in those emotions... but in how we understand and manage those emotions.

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The relationship between our emotions and work

The relationship that exists between emotions and work is maximum, since during every second of the day we feel emotions and They don't make you feel one way or another, but they condition your relationships, your motivation, and also the decisions you make. take.

The mistake we have made in relation to emotions is to ignore them. This stems from an ancient, mechanical, Cartesian view of emotions. We think that emotions are our "irrational" part and that we should ignore them. However, it is quite the opposite. Emotions are always there, influencing your interpretations, decisions, and every action and human relationship.

In this article I am going to tell you how your emotions affect your work and above all how to have them on your side, since if you learn to understand and manage them, you will have the greatest tool on your side, not only for professional growth but also for well-being.

The root of everything is in our emotional side

In the last 10 years I have accompanied people from up to 5 different countries as a psychologist and coach in their processes of change and personal growth. In cases where people wanted to grow as professionals or to achieve success in their ventures, we discovered that emotions were the key to everything.

What is the reason? It is clear: the key to feeling good in your job, growing and improving, are not sales techniques, following advice, training non-stop or following a guru... but to develop the key personal skills that help you as a person and professional. It is about skills such as assertive communication, productivity, how you relate to others, and of course, the great pillar is the management of emotions. That is why I developed Empoderamientohumano.com online personal development school from where I accompany people to live this process.

Emotions in the different types of work environment

You may find yourself in one of these three groups:

1. You work at the base of an institution, organization or company

In these cases it is common to feel too much stress and conflicts both with the work team and with users or clients, as well as difficulties when managing time and planning. It is difficult to grow and feel good in stressful environments.

However, although any environment can always be better, the big key is how you manage your emotions. What depends on whether you know how to manage your time well or not? How you understand and manage your emotions. What does it depend on to make some decisions or others? How do you understand those emotions (if they paralyze you or make you take action). What does the quality of your personal relationships depend on? From your ability to manage conflicts, knowing how to put yourself in the other's place and connecting with that person (again, emotions are the key).

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2. You work in a position with responsibility

In this case, the importance of emotions is maximum, since the greater the responsibility, the more frequent it is. a greater difficulty managing anger when the results are not what we want or the team does not perform as it is necessary.

But the problem is not the team, but how to connect with others, transmit security, confidence and leadership and make the team grow. In this case, learning to manage anger, fear and trust in order to connect better is the big key.

3. You work alone and want to start a project

In this case, the key emotion is fear. There is not only a lot of fear of taking action, but also of trying different actions that lead to different results.

In turn, fear leads us to mistrust, to not generate productive relationships with other people and professionals. There are also problems with insecurity, mistrust (towards yourself or others) or anxiety (because everything depends on you).

The possibility of progress begins with oneself

Whatever the case you are in, your emotions condition your result. But as I told you at the beginning of the article, the problem is not your emotions but how you understand and manage them. To get them on your side instead of against you, the tool is live a process of personal change where you discover how you manage your emotions now and learn to manage them in a more functional way, so that your confidence grows, fear does not paralyze you and both your decisions and your productivity and personal relationships improve in an environment of calm and growth mutual.

I invite you to visit empoderamientohumano.com, the online personal development school where I accompany people to live their change processes, especially related to their management of emotions. Having them on your side will be the most valuable decision you can make.