Emotions can cause you to make positive or negative choices without thinking about them objectively and can affect your success.

That is why your attitude toward people and life’s challenges can determine if you become successful or not.

Perhaps you would be more successful right now if it weren’t for your feelings and attitude toward certain things.

But since we live in such a negative and depressing world, it can be easy to fall into the trap of feeling despair 24/7.

Many of us don’t realize that our feelings are our worst enemy.

However, if you can recognize your negative emotions and how they impact your decision-making, you might be able to change your attitude to make better decisions in the future.

Below are the top 8 ways our success is affected by how we feel.

1) Fear of Failure 

Achieving success is about taking chances without having a guaranteed outcome.

Unfortunately, people often fear the unknown and don’t want to take chances because they fear failure.

So they take no chances and still end up feeling miserable for it.

Fear of failure is the number one reason why people don’t achieve their goals.

What’s worse is that people don’t confide in others about their fears, so they stick to their regular everyday routine and act like everything is fine.

It is tough to break out of this habit. The best thing to do is test yourself by taking more chances and doing things you wouldn’t normally do in your daily life.

Then, as you grow accustomed to taking more chances, you can take bigger chances toward achieving your goals.

2) Anger and Resentment 

Anger and resentment can make you do things you might regret, such as quitting a job or failing to pursue viable opportunities.

It is easy to resent others and be angry toward anything frustrating and challenging.

But your frustrations and resentments will never disappear if you don’t learn to minimize anger.

Keep some distance between you and anyone else making you angry.

Also, try lowering your expectations and avoiding putting yourself in impossible situations.

Pursuing challenging goals or tasks is okay, but keep a realistic and open mind along the way. In other words, don’t get your hopes too high.

3) Low Self-Esteem 

You can develop a low opinion of yourself due to repeated failures, bullying, unfortunate situations, or people who make you feel bad about yourself.

When this leads to a lack of self-confidence and self-respect, it can cause you to think you’re not good enough to achieve your goals.

There is no easy fix for low self-esteem. The best advice is to remove yourself from a hostile environment and people who continue to put you down and make you feel bad.

Then, if you can surround yourself with positive people who make you feel good about yourself, you could develop more confidence to pursue your goals and dreams.

4) Jealousy 

Jealousy is an all-too-common emotion. If you see someone who has something you desire, it will make you wish you were in their shoes.

But when you don’t get it yourself, the jealousy will make you feel all kinds of negative emotions, such as anger and sadness.

Do not put yourself in someone else’s shoes by trying to copy their success.

Instead, go out and create your success by bringing your skills and abilities to the table.

That way, you won’t pressure yourself to be like someone you are not.

5) Sadness and Depression 

Sadness and depression can drain your energy and motivation to succeed.

Then you’ll procrastinate on achieving your goals rather than pursuing them vigorously.

Avoid whatever is making you feel sad. Maybe you could try talking to a counselor or therapist to help guide you out of your depressive state.

6) Guilt 

Did you do something in the past you regret?

If you keep blaming yourself for doing something wrong, you’ll never allow yourself a chance to improve.

Stop dwelling on things that happened in the past and start focusing on the present.

Allow every mistake to motivate you to improve yourself next time around.

7) Naysayers 

Naysayers are negative people who keep telling you that you won’t succeed at whatever it is you want to do.

How are you supposed to succeed if people like this surround you?

Ignore the naysayers and remove them from your life as much as possible. Stay around people who encourage you rather than discourage you.

8) Mental Illness 

Some people cannot avoid the threat of mental illness and the negative ways it can make them feel.

The only treatment option is to seek professional care from a doctor to mitigate the symptoms of the illness.

Then, hopefully, you can feel good enough to pursue your goals without the illness holding you back.

Conclusion 

There is no easy way to turn off negative emotions.

However, working on reducing them can go a long way in giving you the drive and motivation to achieve your goals.

Just remember to surround yourself with positivity and eliminate the negativity.

That should help you get to a better place in your life sooner rather than later.