Society teaches us to hide our frustrations. Anyone who shows emotion or a sign of being “let down” is considered weak and not in control.

Given that, when we get frustrated or fail - we’re inclined to do either of two things:

1. Freak out.
2. Bottle it up.

Both are wrong.

My opinion is that feeling frustrated, feeling like giving up - those feelings are just fine, as a matter of fact they are almost necessary. If you don’t feel those every now and then, how you ever going to know when things are good?

My trick is that I feel it’s ok to “freak out” or express incredible frustration or even think about quitting - as long as you do it for a few moments and then put it behind you.

These are powerful feelings, no one (I don’t care who you are) can just ignore them and package them away - they’ll get you eventually. So, why not do the opposite?

Why not acknowledge them and purposely let them vier their ugly heads around the corner? Try this…

The next time you’re feeling overwhelmed, frustrated or thinking of quitting…give yourself a DEDICATED amount of time that you will allow those feelings to impact you and make you feel sorry for yourself and once that time is up - cut it out, push them out and move on.

Example/

You just stepped on the scale and see that you did not lose any weight this week after all the hard work you put in. The feeling to quit starts to seep in, frustration, disappointment and negative emotions take you over.

Let them - but look at yourself in the mirror and say…

“Fine, you got 15 minutes (or 1 hour or whatever) - go ahead and be depressed and feel sorry for yourself. But, that’s it, after that time, back at it we go. So hear me all you negative feelings, I’m ‘allowing’ you to engulf me for the next 15 minutes. Do what you want, but know this, you have 15 minutes and then you’re OUT OF HERE.”

Learn to control your emotions appropriately, we don’t control everything so sometimes you need to let nature do it’s course - but in the end you control the outcome.

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