It is amazing to me how life can be driving along all nice and easy, then all of a sudden… all Hades breaks loose, and it seems as if, a lot of things begin going the wrong way!
It is at these times our attitudes can make the biggest difference!
When revisiting Steven Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, yesterday, I began thinking of this. Many times, as we are driving through life, we hit DETOUR signs. We didn’t plan on them, we will be late, our lives will be changed, we lose our tempers, or we get discouraged – or do we choose to roll with those changes and enjoy a little scenery?
We don’t always choose the turns, stops, and detours of life. We don’t even have the ability to choose who we are paired against as we pull up to the staging lanes. What we do choose, is our ability to react. Each one of us has the choice to make the move to the accelerator when the first, second, or third yellow light flashes or to wait until we actually see the green light.
However, if we wait until we see the green light to actually move, the race has probably been lost to guy with the faster reaction time. Likewise, if we move too soon, we red light and are out of the race with big DQ. Sometimes you race, sometimes you wait for the rain to break.
When the rain pounds down on the windows the morning of your big family picnic, do you choose to yell at the clouds and damn the weather or do you regroup and find another way to make memories; A picnic in the living room or the great water war of 2011 as the family heads out to “picnic” in the rain.
I can remember summer downpours and water fights and puddle splashing with my sister and father when I was young. Instead of complaining about the rain, we accepted the scenario and made the best. I work to instill this in my daughter and those around me.
If I’ve been handed a flat tire in the middle of summer, on a country road with a realtor who doesn’t know what to do – I will teach her how to change that tire and not sit on the side of that road like a victim. (Vincennes, IN 1995) Our reactions determine our outcome.
Our reactions signal and guide those around us as well.
Our reactions are determined by OURSELVES!
Take ownership and control of your reactions and you will find you are a bit
more in control of your outcomes.
If you've got the Drive, we've got the Vehicle!
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