REMIX | Manage Your Emojis

Managing your emotions is not about pretending that they don't exist, it's about putting them in the right place. Emotions are like kids. You can't put them in the driver's seat, but you can't put them in the trunk either. I'm also even parenting advice. You can't put your kids in the trunk. They gotta be in the car. They just have to be in the right place. And emotions, they make terrible drivers. They'll take you to places you don't wanna go. They'll cause you to to do things that you'll spend the rest of your life trying to recover from. And so we have to manage our emotions by taking responsibility for how we feel instead of blaming other people for our emotions. You are responsible for your emotions and nobody else nobody else has the power to make you feel any kind of way. [00:22:36] (42 seconds)

But but we don't really take time to think about how the things that we listen to, the things that we look at, the people that we're around, the effect that they have on our hearts. But if you do not guard your heart, you will not be able to control what comes out of your life. Right? That old saying, garbage in, garbage out. That what you put in is going to come out. And you can't continually be around negative people, listen to negative things, and watch negative things, and yet have positive emotions. You can't be around the wrong people listening to the wrong things, watching the wrong things, and feeling the right way. That's why the bible says above all else, guard your heart because what gets into your heart is gonna shape your emotions and come out in your life. [00:16:25] (42 seconds)

I think social media is ruining our attention spans. I used to be able to read entire books. Now if somebody posts something longer than two paragraphs, I'm out. I'm just scrolling till the next meme. I'll I'll go to like pick up my phone. Like, oh, yeah. I gotta see this. I'll pick up my phone. And then twenty minutes later, like, why did I pick up my phone? I don't remember. I got I got lost in a in a in a maze of social media. My attention span is kinda like spotty WiFi. It's there for a second and then it's gone. mind has like two modes, either hyper focus, write a book, or what did I walk into this room for. And I'm more on the what did I walk into this room for than I am focused on anything else. And so our attention spans are getting shorter, but what you give your attention to is still very important because your focus shapes your feelings. The way you feel right now is the result of what you have been focusing on. [00:17:12] (51 seconds)

which is a shock because some people act as if they have no control over how they feel. So if they have a bad attitude, if they're feeling down, if they're upset, they just stay that way the entire day and then hope when they wake up the next day, they're in a better mood. They treat a bad attitude like a storm. You just have to wait it out and let it pass. But that's not true. Viktor Frankl was a holocaust survivor, and he wrote about his experiences living in a Nazi concentration camp. He said everything was taken away from him. His clothes, his pictures, his personal belongings. He says they even took away their names and gave them numbers instead. He said, but there was one thing they couldn't take away. He said, everything can be taken from a man but one thing, the last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances. [00:07:37] (56 seconds)