Striving for balance

Working with Surgery, life can be crazy even if you aren't directly on the field where the patient is being worked on. It takes a personality that not only can handle the "grossness" that comes with the job, but also one that strives toward personal excellence in their work. I have been told that in this job I am able to keep people calm, or to bring them to that place where they can think more rationally instead of freaking out about things. I think that is something that has been more learned than not, as well as a gift from God. If I allow the severity and the pressure that comes with the job get to me rather than just taking it one step at a time, then my work, my mind is not balanced and cannot perhaps make the wisest, healthiest decision as to where to go from that point.
Brad pointed out to me that in everyday life, however, I have a tendency to over analyze and to let things get to me more than I would at the job. Why is that, I wonder? Why have I yet to really learn the skill and joy in taking life as it comes to me instead of over-emotionalizing it?
I am an emotional creature, both by creation and nature. It's not a bad thing, though it can be out of proportion depending on how I respond to things. Perhaps at work I am able to put those feelings aside more than I am in everyday life and so can function in a manner that is better across the table. This is a goal to be learned in the rest of the compartments of life.
Oh Lord my God, help me to learn balance between emotion and logic in every day that comes to pass. Lord, as it is said in your word, "Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom." - Psalm 90:12