Before You Respond
Nature Girl
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Before You Respond
Before you respond, take a breath. Before you respond, take a moment to think.
When you instantly and automatically react, it allows the people and events around you to take control of your life. When, on the other hand, you thoughtfully and deliberately respond, it puts you firmly in control.
You can watch, listen and learn from all that's going on in your world. Yet you never have to let it all get to you.
Always remember that you can choose how to think and feel about whatever is happening. Even more importantly, you can choose what, if anything, to do about it.
Stay ever connected to your dreams, your values, your experience and your wisdom. Give yourself a moment to consider the best of who you are before you decide how to speak or to act.
Every moment is a choice that you have the opportunity to make. Choose those possibilities that will move you steadily and decisively forward.
-- Ralph Marston
Copyright ©2006 Ralph S. Marston, Jr.
When you instantly and automatically react, it allows the people and events around you to take control of your life. When, on the other hand, you thoughtfully and deliberately respond, it puts you firmly in control.
You can watch, listen and learn from all that's going on in your world. Yet you never have to let it all get to you.
Always remember that you can choose how to think and feel about whatever is happening. Even more importantly, you can choose what, if anything, to do about it.
Stay ever connected to your dreams, your values, your experience and your wisdom. Give yourself a moment to consider the best of who you are before you decide how to speak or to act.
Every moment is a choice that you have the opportunity to make. Choose those possibilities that will move you steadily and decisively forward.
-- Ralph Marston
Copyright ©2006 Ralph S. Marston, Jr.
Nature Girl
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: By The Lake
Posts: 60,328
The readings today are speaking directly to me, funny how that works some days. I love this line...
Stay ever connected to your dreams, your values, your experience and your wisdom. Give yourself a moment to consider the best of who you are before you decide how to speak or to act.
Stay ever connected to your dreams, your values, your experience and your wisdom. Give yourself a moment to consider the best of who you are before you decide how to speak or to act.
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