Transcript:
Hi there. My name is Jeff Arthur with the Values Conversation, here to talk to you today about emotional triggers in our lives. You and I both know that we want to grow and become more. You and I both know we have strengths and weaknesses and things that we need to work on and things that we’re very good at and things that we can build on. All those things are true, but what I want to talk to you about today, is about how we have emotional triggers that affect us and get in the way of our personal growth.
At the time of this recording, I’ve just come off several weeks where I didn’t realize what had happened, but at the anniversary of my mother’s death, I was emotionally triggered in a way that I didn’t even recognize when it happened and I went off the rails. I lost focus. I lost momentum. I lost energy. I lost everything. I just completely almost shut down. It took not only my fiancee but my work wife to challenge me and tell me that I needed to pull myself back out of the mud and figure out what was going on.
Sometimes it takes somebody who doesn’t have the same emotional triggers to hold us accountable and say, you know what? Something’s happened. What’s going on? Whenever I realized that and realized what had happened and realized how far off track I had gotten, then I quickly was able to come back and continue the momentum. Don’t be afraid to ask for help and watch out for those emotional triggers.
My name is Jeff Arthur with the Values Conversation. You can find out more about us on Facebook at facebook.com/thevaluesconversation.