It's Your Mood..! Let's See how We Can Manage it

What you'll receive from life heavily relied on  your effort, and your emotional states aka moods. By the time you are in a positive mood, everything just seem perfect - you can be more productive, doing an effective multi-tasking, and any obstacle you face just feels like nothing. But when you are in a bad mood, you tend to perceive much of everything in negative ways - even a barking dog can turns you into a grumpy cat.  So, most people will agree if I say that mood gives a significant effects on your daily life.

So, if such a thing gives a significant impact to our life, how can we control it? How can we stabilized our emotional states? Many people think that mood is created by external events. When things go as your positive expectation, you are in a good mood, but when things go awfully unexpected  you're going to be in a bad mood, right?

Actually, the statement is neither a valid argument, nor fact. Robert Thayer, a psychologist and the author of Calm Energy, said that mood develops from internal events rather than external events. Robert also said that  

Events are random. Even if you try to plot them down in to a good looking chart, you will find that the correlation between an event and your emotional states is little to none.

What Affecting Our Mood at Most and How We Can Manage it

Mood is significantly affected with our routines and lifestyle, such as, the way we sleep, the frequency of our physical exercise, and our circadian rhythms. Those are some factors that also directly affect our biological function, starting from fluctuation of our hormones to the level of neurotransmitter. By the time you are exhausted or tired, your biological function will hardly adjust to your work load, thus, making you easier to perceive events in negative ways which create your 'bad mood.'

So, to manage such a things you can try these tips:

1. Figure out what type of person you are
What I mean by "type" in here is highly associated with your circadian rhythm. In general, you will find either you are a "morning person" or a "night person." Morning person have their best energy in a 'fresh day', while a night person will have their best in late night out of sun light. After knowing what type of person you are, try aligning your heavy work in accordance to your best time.

Save your regular tasks (like laundering, bathing your pet, etc) for the hours once you feel 'soft' fatigue, as your body comes down off its mountaintop of energy. By doing this, you are managing your own work load and optimizing your biological function to its best. You will have better productivity, and experience less stress and bad mood.


2. Stop Getting 'Overloaded'
   When you feel a tense fatigue, take the advice that a mother give to her two-years-old baby: sleep aka take a break and rest for a while . Rest is the only way to handle your tense fatigue. A short nap after lunch can divert your body's energy stream from tense fatigue to soft fatigue.
 
3. Use Caffeine Wisely
   By the time you feel a wave of tense fatigue to your body, you might feel the temptation for an instant energy booster. However, you need to understand that artificial burst of energy will be followed by a downside reaction that diminishes your energy for a much longer period.

Remember that the key to a stable mood is within ourselves. Stop blaming external events that you can't control for your grumpy behavior ;)