Does anybody you know have an ’emotional performance agreement’ with themselves about how they behave in work inwardly in their thinking towards others?

It’s almost akin to making a firm commitment regarding our emotional state so we can gain better control over our emotions.

I ask because of all the overthinking, misconceptions and related irrational dislikes some people can have for others in business online.

Making that commitment is a chance to develop a healthier relationship with your own emotions or simply not let fear (if that’s what it is) keep getting in the way of your business or life progress for that matter.

How you work towards that commitment is the very stuff Alison Blackler and myself – see Joel Jelen Sniffsighyawn – work on together in helping others under the banner of ‘work performance’.

Focus, channelling and setting boundaries are crucial in this but first of all as Alison will tell you, understanding how the brain works, her favourite subject, is key.

Once you understand this, the experience of doing and achieving creates the momentum for applying your emotional performance agreement to other areas of your life too.

Surely life is more rewarding without having constant angry, frustrated, negative inner speech bubbles hating on others?

And if it hadn’t crossed your mind what consistently being negative about others does to your physiological state, ask your go-to, favourite health practitioner.

All this chatter actually arose in a pub conversation over a large sparkling mineral water with a posse of male colleagues (drinking something stronger, albeit responsibly) as part of #mensmentalhealthawarenessmonth but that emotional performance agreement is ideal for all human beings!