Self Control

Posted on August 19, 2006
Tags: Living, Personal development |

I usually have a decent level of self control and can keep quite cool in the face of different positive or negative situations. Whether it’s in trading, workplace, or major life changes like relocation. I don’t get very upset or overly happy easily. Losing money or making it, office politics or packing my life into boxes and travelling to another continent to look for a new career and life. So it nags me and puzzles me why in one area of my life, relationships, I can’t exercise the same level of self control. In particular why is it that another person (different ones at different times in my life) can have such impact on my emotions so as to disrupt what is otherwise very logical way of thinking? I am getting better, but still, seeing that special person come online, for example, can sometimes get my heart racing faster than I’ve ever experienced in trading or other areas of my life. It doesn’t help that that person is one of the most self composed, poker-faced individuals I’ve ever met.

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3 Responses to “Self Control”

  1. John on August 19th, 2006 3:32 pm

    The simple answer is because you are a man. If the human race wasn’t built that way, we would have died off long ago.

    She has a poker face. Ha! She can’t resist you either (she probably tells her girlfriends the same thing about you.)

  2. eyal on August 20th, 2006 3:52 am

    Hey John, yes I guess you are right. And also after thinking about it more, maybe what I’m wishing for isn’t really desireable.

    Ice cold I tell you.. maybe it’s a cultural and/or age difference.

  3. John on August 20th, 2006 7:47 am

    How old is she?

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