Why aiming to feel good is a bad idea

Full disclosure: I don’t feel good all the time. 

Not that that bothers me, of course.

Wanting to feel good all the time is a pointless, useless goal that’ll stifle your success.

Here are some of the “feelings” I cycled through just yesterday:

  • Trepidation – making a decision on a high-risk business strategy
  • Sadness – hearing of the death of a friend’s close relative
  • Frustration – as someone I’d arranged to meet for dinner ghosted me, followed by a pathetic excuse
  • Tiredness – typing this for you at 9.30pm after 4 hours sleep last night (late ferry from Morocco)
  • Uncertainty – over a JV deal I’ve been working on for ages
  • Disappointment – as Stripe erroneously settled a dispute in a CopyStream subscriber’s favour
  • Happiness – hearing of another wonderful success story for one of my CIB clients

The trouble with only “doing happy” – as someone claimed they did the other day – is that you end up doing not very much at all.

Growing, learning and creating brings discomfort, anguish and exertion.

Feeling good comes when it’s ready.

Love you lots
Jonny

PS: On the 9th June, I’ll be running my groundbreaking workshop all about starting lucrative conversations, more easily, called “Thriving In Corporate Wellbeing” – [AKA – Tap Into The New Coaching Paradigm For 2025].

It’s FREE, but you’ll need to bookmark the date, and you can hit the VIP early-bird registration here: https://cib.global/ticw/

 

 

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