Your feelings are not your friend if you want a future filled with good fortune and fulfillment. Said another way...follow your feelings and you're f'd.

Most of us aren't aware of how many decisions we make each day, based on how we feel in the moment.

Do you hit the snooze button or get out of bed right away? Order your coffee black, or get a coffee-flavored milk shake? Go to the gym after work, or negotiate with yourself about how you feel, and then drive home?

We make dozens, if not hundreds of little decisions every day. Each decision itself might seem insignificant. But, when you add them up over a month, year, or a lifetime, those little decisions shape your life and legacy.

If you're not conscious of the choices you make, you'll default to how you feel at the moment. You won't make the logical choice. You'll make the choice that (temporarily) feels good.

If you want to suck the marrow out of life, rather than just having things suck, take charge of your choices, no matter how you feel when you make them.

Ever notice how fast fear and self-doubt take over your head and you start making up excuses for why you shouldn’t say something or do something? We hold ourselves back in the smallest, most mundane moments every day, and that impacts everything. If you break this habit of hesitating and you find the courage to “take some kind of action,” you’ll be astonished by how fast your life changes.Mel Robbins, The 5 Second Rule

Sometimes it's helpful to talk about your feelings, such as when you feel sad from the loss of someone, hurt because a friend stabbed you in the back, or angry after someone disrespected your spouse or your child.

But those are the rare circumstances where feelings steer you in the right direction. Most of the time, feelings cause you to trade short-term comfort for long-term success and fulfillment.

Your feelings fail you. Here are five reasons how...

1. Your Feelings Make You Act Like a Child

Think back to being a kid. Did you ever feel like cleaning up your room, taking a shower, brushing your teeth, or eating your vegetables?

I bet there were many times when your parents asked you to do something, and you put up a fuss because you didn't feel like doing what they asked you to do.

Sometimes, they probably even raised their voices or threatened consequences if you didn’t do what you were supposed to do.

Parents have to hold their kids accountable to doing the stuff they don't feel like doing, or they won't do it.

The desire to do what you feel like doing never goes away. Even as an adult, you'll be tempted. But grown-ups don't think or behave like kids do.

Grown-up: to grow toward or arrive at full stature or physical or mental maturity; to stop thinking or behaving in a childish way Merriam-Webster

Children think and behave based on how they feel.

Grown-ups set their feelings aside, and do whatever needs to be done to move closer to their goals.

A parent has the authority with their kids to get them to do something, even when they don’t feel like it.

As a grown-up, you need to parent yourself. You need to make yourself do what you don’t feel like doing.

You don’t get a participation ribbon or a gold star for getting up on time, eating a healthy breakfast, going to the gym, or being kind to your spouse. I know it’s popular to post about that stuff, and then hashtag it #adulting.

But, grown-ups don’t need a pat on the back to do what grown-ups are supposed to do. Sometimes you just need to suck it up and do it.

It doesn’t matter if you’re tired, scared, nervous, or feel like you don't have the skills. You're a grown-up, so you do what needs to be done.

Guys need to man up, and ladies often need to woman up.

Follow your feelings and you'll make choices like a child. The world needs more grown ups, not just "legal adults."

2. Your Feelings Trick You Into Staying the Same

Except for the few number of non-negotiable activit...