Our thoughts and our feelings can inform each other rather than compete with each other. When we’re emotionally self-aware in the workplace, it actually helps us do the work of thinking through work problems logically.

 

Have you ever developed a bit of resentment toward a boss or a coworker? That resentment leads to a division in your relationship, a kind of subtle two-faced dynamic. Like Shakespeare’s Macbeth, your “False face must hide what the false heart doth / know.” But that division happens on the inside, too. When you’re not emotionally self-aware about your anger and resentment, you’ll start making work decisions differently because of your feelings without realizing it.

 

In contrast, when we become emotionally self-aware by God’s grace, we can see ourselves, our colleagues, and our work challenges more clearly. 

 

Sources: Luke 10:25-28 (NIV)

Matthew 5:21-26 (NIV)

Jonah 3:10-4:11 (NIV)

James 5:16 (NIV)

1 Peter 4:8 (NIV)

Shakespeare’s Macbeth 1.7.94-96

Gary Chapman, Anger: Taming a Powerful Emotion (Chicago: Moody Publishers, 1999, 2007, 2015).

Alice Fryling, Seeking God Together: An Introduction to Group Spiritual Direction (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2008).

Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2013).

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