What can you really control? In today's fast paced world it seems like very little is under our direct control anymore. Frustration is rampant everywhere. It is widely accepted that the two main things you can control is your ATTITUDE and your ACTIONS. Now I totally agree with that statement but believe there may be a few more things you really can control. How about your PRIDE and your EGO? Both of those items seem to cause huge problems also. Are you able to think of other things that you can actually control?
What I like about the ATTITUDE and ACTIONS part is that those two items cover about 95% of everything that you need to be concerned about in life. Actually when you boil it down to essentials, you discover that PRIDE and EGO are both pretty much covered in ATTITUDE and ACTIONS also. If you watch your attitude you won't end up with either excessive pride or ego! If you watch your actions you won't end up with unwanted or unintended consequences either. Those unwanted consequences cause the majority of pain in most folks lives in my opinion, so controlling your actions and your attitude will also remove much pain from your daily living.
Controlling your attitude and actions requires that you have a moral and ethical values set that you can use to guide yourself and your actions accordingly. How or where do you obtain such values? I suggest they are available all around you but it requires you to think about them and see which values are most important to you personally. My values may be different than yours, yet yours work for you just as well as mine work for me. May I suggest that you take some time today to exercise your most important muscle (your brain) today, right now, and think about your values. Write them down if you don't have them written already and use them to be a valuable aid to guiding your attitude and actions!
When you are in control of your ATTITUDE and ACTIONS then life seems just a little bit sweeter and certainly easier.
These are my thoughts, what are yours?
Steve
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