How much emotional interest do you charge?

When someone slights or wrongs you how long do they have to continue paying for their original transgression towards you?

Do you continue to remind them?

Do you make sure they never forget?

How about you?

How much emotional interest do you pay?

When you experience a negative emotional event in your life how long do you continue carrying it with you, essentially paying for it over and over again?

And if you’re like the majority of people then you probably only carry emotional interest on negative events and very quickly forget positive events.

Rarely do you see someone happy and smiling about a great event that happened to them a week ago, but you’ll find traces of a negative event tend to linger in their psyche so much longer.

The great Albert Einstein once said “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world.” And this is because it allows the interest on money to earn interest, growing on itself like a snowball.

Emotions will do the same if you let them.

The longer you decide to carry an emotion about an event the stronger it will grow, basically compounding interest on your original emotion.

So your choices are, how much emotional interest do you want to charge others and perhaps even importantly, how much emotional interest do you want to pay?

Be careful and choose wisely, because if you overcharge others or overpay yourself then both can lead to emotional bankruptcy.

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