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Do our thoughts drive our emotions or vice-versa? What lessons can we learn about emotions and their impact on creating the goals we feel strongly connected to? While some emotions seemed to drain us of energy, others have the opposite effect. In this article we will look at how the practice of observing your emotions can lead you ever closer to what your goals are really intended to create.

It's probably self-evident to most people that feeling sad or down about the reality of your current life because it is in stark contrast to a future and unrealized potential, often makes you tired! So tired, that your very life energy can appear to be draining away. But it doesn't have to be that way. The very same energy you make use of to paint black the mental sky scape with clouds of gloom and resignation, can blow the storm away and reveal a brighter scene.

How is this done? The first step is to start becoming the dispassionate observer of your own emotional experience. Not to ignore or deny these emotions, mind you - because there is a part of you that is experiencing their effects in real-time, but to observe and yet feel them as we observe and feel the changing weather day by day.

In the context of setting life changing goals, this practice of observation can be unnerving at the best of times. There is sometimes a "knot" in your stomach or you may even feel a little sick at the thought of what lies between you and your goal. This is good! Embrace it, because the very fact that you can feel this way means the goal is a biggie. And this act of observing gives you an opportunity to send some of these mental clouds on their way with your very own jet stream of desire. It might take a little time. But the storm will pass.

Which leaves you where, exactly? In my experience, it can take you from being one of the "worried well" about setting your goals, to a state of almost driven calm. Easier to feel than to write about, but there for the asking. In fact, as you practice this observation of your emotional connection with your goals, you should expect there to be some anxiety, nervousness and doubts - sometimes almost as much as the positive emotions of courage, hope and desire. I guess underneath it all we're each just one big emotional weather machine!

And that brings me back to the opening paragraph of this article. What I do know is this. Thinking happy thoughts often just doesn't cut it on a permanent basis when I am, as the song goes, "feeling blue". Or when I am simply over anxious about where my goals might take me. God forbid! I might actually get closer to achieving some of them! Whereas, when my emotional barometer is "set fair", as a natural outcome of this habitual observing, it's very difficult for negative events, people or feelings to "bring me down" for long. So that's where I go now. How about you?

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Mark McClure is a certified career coach and loves setting emotional goals!