Captain's Blog, Stardate 2013.04.07, U.S.S. Enterprise - Internal pressure, motivation, the right thing, what feels good, and how they're never guaranteed to be the same thing

As I sit here and adjust the title of this blog post to suit this post, I find myself disappointed, angry, ashamed that the date I am changing is 03.17. This means that I haven't blogged this thread since march 17.  I'm sorry to those who take the time to follow my blog, it appears that I have let you down in my absence. I can only commit to doing better, but it doesn't mean I'm off the hook. I'm just not sure what my consequence should be yet.

Today I want to talk about our internal pressures. We all have them, they can manifest in motivation, perseverance, tenacity, anxiety, and the list goes on. The point of which is just that it is all there, in all of us, and for those that aren't as introspective, I may sound crazy.

We choose to decide how we react to these pressures in our minds. We cannot choose how or when they occur, but we do choose what we do about it. For example, feeling frustration, overwhelmed, angry, these are all normally considered negative. But there are ways, that we can redirect these pressures in more productive ways. It is not at all easy, but to use the bottled frustration, and anger, and force it into the fuel tank so to speak, and to use it as energy to keep on going, in a positive way.

Why is it that confrontational avoidance is so difficult? I know it is the right thing to do, but why is it so difficult? Why does the right thing FEEL wrong?

Le sigh

Though at the top of my blog dashboard it reads
"Cross Disciplinary Celebration of Human Advancement Knowledge Discovery and Preservation Society Blog's blogs."

Blogger put the " 's blogs" behind it automatically, and the goofiness of how it sounds makes me chuckle.

Maybe sometimes that's all we need to relieve the pressure, a good laugh and chuckle here or there.

http://amadmanspursuitofclarity.blogspot.ca/