# Chapter 277

Elements of a successful life: prepare emotionally – focus mentally/intellectually – execute physically (health/exercise) – eat rationally – schedule logically. - Masterminds

That is a fine recipe for PTA. Five great points for your star of success. Today is prepare emotionally. We are emotional beings, no matter how high on the food chain you think you are roosting. You have feelings, and I have feelings and that makes us emotional beings. So prepare emotionally. For the highs and for the lows and everything in-between. Prepare emotionally for the tough times and the celebrations. Prepare emotionally for the rock bottoms and the peaks. Prepare emotionally for the betrayals and the new relationships. Prepare emotionally for those who are going to quit and for those who are going to pick up more than their share of the responsibility. Prepare emotionally for the other part of your life that keeps moving, your spouse, your kids, your grands.

Did that help you see that you need to prepare emotionally? We have feelings, we experience life events - births, deaths, graduations, weddings, and the holidays with people we love, or at least with people we are related to - and thus we need to be prepared emotionally. Those who don’t prepare, don’t get a pass, instead they just get hammered harder than those who prepare emotionally. So live it! Feel it! Experience it all as deeply as life can be experienced. Just don’t be unprepared.