You Need To Get Angry

 

Why anger is good for you.

Anger, even though a destructive emotion, is a required catalyst for growth. - James Ezenachi

Understanding this concept will make you value anger.

If you have never gotten angry with your situations and inabilities, you may never be propelled to seek growth.

Many of us are where we are today because of the level of anger that we entertain.

And I know, we have been trained and groomed to think and believe that anger is a bad thing, a negative emotion that we should avoid at all cost.

While I understand the reason for this logical position, I also understand that perspective is everything.

So, if the reason why you have been told to desist from anger and the underlying emotions is because of the possible havoc it can wreak in a person and their fellow, especially when one person feels hurt by another and they are pushed to have a revenge.

Yes, for that I understand and agree.

However, when I talk about anger from a different perspective, it is in the light of personal unhappiness.

Being unhappy that you don't have what you want and desire and understand that it is the fault of no one else but you.

You are the chief architect of your failures and unsuccessful-ness.

Understanding that if it will happen you have to make it happen  

That no one needs it as badly enough as you do

That you alone hold the key to making the required change that will improve your results.

This is understanding that as long as you keep pampering and being considerate to yourself, that you will continue to remain in your comfort zone and never get to that desired position that you want.

Understanding that your comfort is holding you back.

So therefore, the only way is through.

And because you understand this, and knowing that the human brain is designed to self preserve its host ( which is you ) , it will do everything within its autonomous power to help you remain unmoved out of your comfort zone or to always seek it when you are out of it.

The only way you can get it to do your desired biddings is to intentionally ask it.

You heard that right!

You have to ask your brain to do what you want the way you want it, else it will always default to its original operating procedure of self preservation.

Please, note that this operating procedure is not naturally a bad thing, but rather a good thing when it comes to survival of the human species.

So, make no mistake in thinking that the brain is not that smart or creative in of its own. No. 

The functioning operating procedure of the brain is the only reason why our great ancestors were able to survive the wild and birth our lineage.

But, as we will have it, sometimes what we need is not survival in the primitive way of looking at it, but rather survival in a social complex that we now exist in.

In many ways now, survival is not about directly chasing out hyenas from our backyards or fighting off the saber tooth tiger.

Although it could result in that if we fail to be able to afford an urban space.

But, rather it is a quest to be able to afford the convenience of urban life and accomplishing our goals and desires.

For if we fail at these things, the consequences may not be palatable.

Aside from the possibility of what I inferred above about chasing off hyenas and fighting tigers, there are other intangibles that matter more in the life we live today.

Feelings!

The way we feel ( good or bad ) matters a lot in determining the quality of life we get to live.

If you feel good, you get a chance to live a happy and possibly more fulfilling life.

Meanwhile, if you feel bad, there is a possibility of you getting the crumbs of life and living an unhappy existence.

However, there is a possibility of switching these feelings as you see fit to get any result you want.

Of course, we all know that when you feel good or happy or excited, the natural thing you will prefer is to continue feeling that way. 

In fact, people pay a lot of money to feel good and that is why amusement parks like Disneyland and also Hollywood as a whole is a big money industry.

But, the opposite is the case when you feel bad or angry or disgusted.

You literally want to do anything possible to feel positive and good and that can mean you also spending money in those above mentioned places.

This is so because we understand and have come to know that these emotions induce different hormones in our bodies.

While the feel good hormones ( serotonin ) is healthy, the feel *angry* stress hormones ( cortisol ) can not boast of the same outcome.

Rather, cortisol puts you in a fight or flight mode, telling you that something is not right and you have to be at alert and ready to respond in a heartbeat.

While this may not be considered *beautiful by many, it is actually the core hormones of human survival.

And I have said all this to say that for as long as you are sedated in the feeling good state of remaining in your comfort zone even when you have not attained your desired life or outcome.

You will never have the drive to go for what you really want and in the long run, you will not even have the drive to go for what is necessary or required to maintain the life that you now cherish.

Please, understand that these assertions are not for those who already have what they want or have achieved their desires. No. 

It is for those who know they really need something or want to get to a particular level but have decided to leave it all to fate and merry in their comfort, hoping a magic happens to get them there.

Yes, I know that there is such a thing as luck, but what are the odds?

So, understanding the concept of happy and (anger ) stress hormones, will make you value the fact that when you are not at your desired level, you need to get angry and let your body induce the right hormones to stay alert and laser focus at getting the things that need to be done done.

Please note, that this is not a go-ahead-express-opinion for you to feast and relish in anger or any of the negative emotion or energy that it creates due to bad or unfortunate things that happened in your life or disappointment that you may have suffered. No.

*And this is also not about sadness 

This is an artificial case of you intentionally creating the feelings, so as to extract the state of alertness, focus and decisiveness that comes from the emotion. 

Like I alluded earlier, as long as you feel sedated in comfort, you will not have the propensity to make a change and seek out for what you really want, but if you are jarred out of your comfort, then and only then will you be invigorate to change.

Remember, comfort does not inspire change, discomfort does.

So, get angry at your situations, get angry at your laziness, get angry at your failures, get angry at your stagnation, get angry at your procrastinating tendencies, get angry at your lack of enough money, get angry at your bad attitudes, get angry at your inability to attract a loving relationship, get angry at not being able to travel around the world as you would desire.

Literally, get angry at anything that is limiting your full potential for happiness and abundance.

It's that straight forward, no complications.

Get angry at the situation and ask yourself what do you need to do or what can you do to get yourself out of that jam of unhappiness or unfulfilled (ness).

And if you don't know what to do, do a research or ask others who have it better than you and do what they tell you.

DO IT!

Do what needs to be done.

No excuses and no complaints

Like Nike will say…

Just Do It.

This part is very important because many a times we may know what needs to be done but we give excuses and complaints and end up not doing it. And as long as we don't do it, the results will not come in as we desire.

So at the end of the day action trumps it all.

Get Angry and Get It Done. ~ James Ezenachi 

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