ABSTRACT
Our responses to inner and outer stimuli are malleable. By changing our mental habits, we alter the chemistry of the brain. This enables one to start over whenever necessary. Whether your desire is to make something that doesn’t yet exist, to manifest a better job, or to solve a problem within an industry or the planet, all are possible through diligent management of the Five Emotions by application of their antidotes: Separation, Humility, Enoughness, Becoming, and the Pause. We run into trouble, however, when we expect our journeys to success to be comfortable. Do not expect the application of the techniques in this book to be easy to sustain. They are counter-intuitive in the face of ingrained mental habit. Real change takes diligence and tenacity, both of which will wane now and then. It is a joy to sustain momentum, and it is easier to regain it when we do not fall apart at its loss. The task at hand for the artist or entrepreneur is to separate who they are from shame, grandiosity, envy, boredom, and fear, so that the way is clear to making something borne of their unique aspiration toward meaning-making. As coaches, our job is to squire that meaning.
