There is much we don’t have control over in life. We can’t control the weather, we can’t live someone else’s life for them, we can’t wave a magic wand and cause a pink flower to become green.
When it comes to circumstances and experiences in life, there are plenty of things we don’t always have control over. The passing of a loved one, for example – it could be sudden and without any prior warning. The loss of a job due to restructure or retrenchment, you may or may not see it coming; bottom line, if it’s out of your control, it’s out of your control.
There might be many things I don’t have control of, but what I do have power over is my attitude – the manner in which I respond or react to hardships, difficulties and people in general.
You have the power of choice, the power to decide what to do with the information given to you or how to respond or react to the person who did you harm.
Your attitude, your outlook and your approach to life has a huge impact on the type of person you will be. Consider an athlete who stumbles while running a 400m race. The winner gets up, composes himself and gets back on the track and approaches the scene knowing that he is a winner and has the ability to recover lost time. The loser sluggishly gets up, very uncertain of his ability and gets back on the track with a defeated mind-set – in his heart he has already lost.
So, when difficulties and uncertainties hit you, how do you react? What attitude will you adopt? Are you defeated in your approach, or will you rise and conqueror with humble courage?
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