Don’t Give Your Feelings A Vote

Learn not to ask yourself how you feel about things, but instead ask yourself if doing or not doing something is right for you. You may know that you need to do something, but you don’t feel like doing it at all. You can wish you felt like it, but wishing does you no good. You have to live by principle and simply choose to do what you know is right. There may be a certain thing you want to do badly. It might be a purchase you want to make that you know is too expensive. Your feelings vote yes, but your heart says no. Tell your feelings they don’t get to vote. They are too immature to vote and will never vote for what is best for you in the long run.

We don’t allow people to vote in political elections until they’re 18 because we assume they would be too immature to know what they’re doing. Why not look at your emotions the same way? They have always been a part of you, but they’re very immature. They are without wisdom and cannot be trusted to do the right thing, so just don’t let them vote.

We mature but our emotions don’t, and if they’re left unchecked, our lives will be a series of unfinished and disappointing ventures.

– Living Beyond Your Feelings/Joyce Meyer