"Be" in Good Moods to Open Opportunities to Fulfill Your Intentions

Moods and “Being” in the Marketplace, Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, we claim that to earn enough money to care for your spouse and children, the first thing to change is your mood or your “way of being” in the marketplace.

Moods and ways of being, such as being persistent and competitive, are narratives about our future.

When we are in good moods, such as being enthusiastic about earning a living to take care of our family or fulfilling our marriage vows and commitments to our children, we open up possibilities and opportunities to fulfill our intentions.

In good moods, we are ready and willing to learn, compete aggressively, forego immediate gratification, endure hardship and cope with failure.

When we are in bad moods, such as feeling entitled or in resignation and despair about making enough money to avoid running out of it in old age, we are blinded to the existence of opportunities to make money.

In bad moods, we find ourselves worried, unwilling, angry, upset, frustrated and feeling weak or bad about what we think we have to do to succeed.

Cultivate Good Moods | Avoid Bad Moods

Good moods that open our future and help us compete successfully to earn a living include:

Being serious, rather than casual, indifferent or nonchalant, about our lives, keeping our marriage vows, our parenting commitments, our household finances, our careers and our businesses
Curiosity about the world around us
Wonder about all there is to learn
Enthusiasm for the work we need to do in the present
Passion for the future we are working to produce
Persistence or aggression to continue to press to fulfill our intentions at all times and under all (or most) circumstances

Bad moods that shut down our future and cause us to fail to compete successfully include:

Being or feeling entitled
Nonchalance about marriage, parenting, finances, career or competition
Cynicism
Resignation or Despair
Panic
Automatic, or unearned, Distrust
Being opinionated
Being politically correct
Being argumentative
Small-mindedness
Arrogance
Pride
Pretentiousness

“Be” in Good Moods

Avoid “being” entitled or nonchalant about your marriage, parenting and finances. And, stop working with or hiring businesspeople who are casual about their commitments. They are producing bad futures for everyone around them, including those they care about most. They’ll do the same for you.

Casual businesspeople are easy to spot by the way. It doesn’t matter whether they are business owners, executives, managers, salespeople or individuals. They seek distraction, don’t honor their commitments to their family and don’t want to be serious. They don’t know their marriage vows or parenting commitments to their children and, therefore, have no commitment to increase their productivity, value and income in order to fulfill them.

This is why serious businesspeople avoid hiring them. They will shut down your future, as they are shutting down their own, if you allow it.

Instead, “be” in good moods – ambition, dignity, enthusiasm, passion and caring about your spouse, children and finances – and surround yourself with serious businesspeople who find working to earn a living to take care of their spouse, children and themselves deeply meaningful, worthwhile and totally satisfying.

(End Part 2 of 2)