Discovering Your Emotional Tone

Discovering Your Emotional Tone

As I progress towards my MBA journey, each day has been able to teach me something new and productive. Given this wonderful opportunity of reflecting on my emotional tone, I felt this was an experience would help me greatly to realize the role of emotions in our personal and professional life.

During the first week, I noticed it was a peculiar case. I scored my lowest P/N ratio of about 1.2 only. It signified I had significantly happy moments as compared to negative moments. I think it was mostly because I was not doing in my health due to high fever and cold. My illness and bad health made me experience a lot of negative emotions, and a fewer number of negative emotions to reflect on. In the subsequent week, my P/N ratio increased significantly. I can attribute this to sudden change of the environment around me. During that week, I got the opportunity to go and attend the National Black MBA Career Fair in New Orleans. I was back in my pink health, and felt new energy around me as I was too excited about this experience. One of the observations was that on those days I interacted with new people, my positivity ratio went high, in the range of 2.2-2.8. I believe meeting new people and exploring new places makes me happy. And also, I got the opportunity to meet professionals from Bank of America. I was wanting to meet them since when I was in India. I think this meeting gave me an alltogether new sphere of positivity.

In the subsequent week, I noticed that my P/N ratio decreased to about 1.8.This entire week I had lots of assignments and pending work to be completed, because I had not managed my time well in the previous week. I got frustrated at times, and would work for hours without a break. Because of the overload of work, I would land up with up with arguments with friends and roommate. Noticing the decrease in my positivity ratio, I realized that I actually need to give to myself for self relction.

In my final week, I kept a balance of work and fun. In the previous weeks, I realized either was too satisfied and positive, or too negative at things. So, I made a time schedule and made sure I followed it religiously. Early morning, I would meditate and give time for self-reflection. I noted the average of the positivity ratio for all the days in the week. It was around 2.0-2.2. It was kind of motivator of me to keep  going this way.

I found a non-uniform pattern in my P/N ratio over the period of 4 weeks. I witnessed the extreme of positive and negative emotions at times. On days when I witnessed more of positive emotions, I took careful note of everything and took action as required. The more positive I was, the more I as able to undo and regulate negative emotions around me. It also broadened my mindset in general. For instance, I was able to new ideas and actions, and was able to create resources for myself which I could use as reserves to be drawn at trying and testing times in the future. At school, while working in teams I found my teamwork was more productive.  I remember one day I was stuck on one data. But one of my team members motivated me and helped me. We went for lunch together.  Back from lunch, I felt so good. I very well did my numbers which otherwise seemed impossible. With a happy and positive mood, I had hearty and happy times with people around me, my family.  With a positive mood, if I talk to people around me, I feel I am lucky to have them in my life. I can connect with them so well. Towards at the end of such a positive day when I go to sleep, I have a feeling of happiness and content in my heart. I feel grateful for this life by God.