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Michael Mashkevich argues that feelings fluctuate but standards stay constant. When you're stuck, stop listening to emotions and start acting like your next version. Learn to separate quiet intuition from temporary emotional reactions.
Michael Mashkevich argues that feelings fluctuate but standards stay constant. When you're stuck, stop listening to emotions and start acting like your next version. Learn to separate quiet intuition from temporary emotional reactions.
If you live by your feelings, you'll live inconsistently. Now most people wake up and they ask themselves, what do I feel like doing today? Do I feel like working out? Do I feel like having that conversation that I've been avoiding? Do I feel like building my future? And you know, when the answer is no, they just don't move. But here's the problem: feelings fluctuate. They keep changing. Standards don't. They're the same. Feelings are signals. They are not instructions. If I only did what I feel like doing, I wouldn't have rebuilt my life. I wouldn't grow. I wouldn't lead. So stop asking what you feel like doing. Now, that doesn't mean ignore your intuition. Intuition is quiet clarity. Feelings are temporary reactions. Learn the difference. They're not the same. Ask what the next version of you would do, then act from that.
