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4 Steps to Having More
Control Over Your Emotions
Using SDOC (Strengths,
Drawbacks, Opportunities
and Challenges)
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ou must be familiar with
the terminology
SWOT, especially if
you are in business. It is a simple but
effective framework used to identify
your company’s Strengths, Weaknesses
(internally), Opportunities, and Threats
(externally). I learned this tool when I
WRITTEN BY ANUSHKA LALWANI
P R E M I E R
I realised I had
been focusing on
negative words.
was completing my degree at Regent’s
University in London, UK.
I
began
I had to shift this
using
this
approach when making decisions in
business and, in fact, whenever I made
a decision in life. However, being a
Life and Emotions Coach - and always
paying attention to the way I feel when
making decisions - I found that the
within myself if
Weakness and Threat carry a negative
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you hear the word Threat but suddenly opens up to
the word Challenge. This is because a challenge has
emotions such as excitement, fun, and thrill attached
to it. The word threat, however, carries emotions of
fear and horror.
Here are 4 steps to having more control over your
1.
Pay attention to your triggers.
2. Be
grateful for these. (They are only
messengers sent to you by God and the Universe.)
I wanted to feel
3. Clear these negative emotions.
4. Focus on how you want to feel
better. This is when going forward.
I came up with
Ultimately everything is energy, and emotions
are just energy in motion. It is key for you to FEEL
GOOD, and in order to do that, you have to think
in the acronym made me feel and
understood why this was: the words
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(Who or what is triggering you to react?)
SWOT analysis was very mechanical.
I began to focus on the way each word
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emotions:
When I started my journey as an
entrepreneur,
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SDOC.
and heavy energy charge around them.
We all know that negative energy brings us down, and in that
moment, I realised I had been focusing on negative words. I had
to shift this within myself if I wanted to feel better. This is when
‘good-feeling’ thoughts.
You can think positive thoughts if the words you use
in your mind carry positive energy and don’t feel like
blocks. They don’t send a message of defeat to the subconscious
mind, but instead, a source of hope.
I came up with SDOC.
With the SDOC analysis, you look at Strengths, Drawbacks,
Opportunities and Challenges. Doesn’t Drawback sound so
much better than Weakness? A drawback is a small setback,
something that you can overcome quite easily compared to
manage a relationship with their emotions. She teaches them the basics of
position of defeat). A small setback simply holds you in one place as well as techniques on how to stop negative emotions. An ex-Payroll
this word helped shift the way I felt.
I also replaced the word Threats with Challenges - let me tell
you why. Think of something that is a potential threat to your
business. Now think of that same threat as a challenge. Feels very
different, right? You can feel how your body becomes stiff when
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lives in London, UK where she helps her clients understand, build, and
the different emotions we have and how they affect our day-to-day lives,
it mentally, emotionally, and physically. Shifting the energy of
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Indian ethnicity, but was born and raised in Barcelona, Spain. She now
a weakness (which brings you down and puts you in a mental
temporarily and, like a hurdle in the journey, you can overcome
B U I L D I N G
About the Author: Anushka is a Life & Emotions Coach for men. She is of
B R A N D
Manager from the corporate world in London, Anushka lost 25lbs by
going on an Emotions Diet. Her personal weight transformation led her
to obtain her Health Coaching Certification at the Institute of Integrative
Nutrition. www.anushkalalwani.com
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