What Controls You?

 

What Controls You?
by Jane Powell

 

“Who’s in control, you or your emotions?”

 

When you allow your emotions to enter into discussions over conflicting opinions or positions, you cloud the issues and detract from your argument.

 

Even if you have a valid point of view, it becomes cloaked in feelings, which reduce its connection to rational thought. You risk losing the other person’s respect. When you’re emotional you end up handing control to those who are in charge of their emotions.

 

Next time conflict arises, stay calm. Bite your tongue, silently count to ten, take a deep breath and state your position in an objective and unemotional manner.

 

Remember, there is a time and a place for showing your emotions. And, powerful people keep their feelings undercover until the time is right.

 

You will make a difference in the world today.

What kind of difference will that be?
Your life will travel in some direction today as the result of your thoughts and actions.

What direction will that be?
This day presents you with a magnificent opportunity that you've never had before.

You can take all that you are, all that you've learned, all that you've experienced up to this point, and use it to move your whole world forward.
Every good and valuable thing you do for life makes your world a better place to be.

Every time you lift up others, your own experience of life is made more wholly fulfilling.
This day and all its possibilities will soon pass. 

Yet the value that you create from it will stay with you 

and will add its own unique flavor to all of life.
You will make a real and lasting contribution to life today.

Choose to make it such that you'll always be thankful for having passed this way. 

 

Start strong

It takes only a few moments plus a little bit of energy and intention to get your day off

to a positive, productive start.

And the way you start your day will determine how the entire day goes for you.

 

At the beginning of the day, put the very best of yourself into life.

That small effort will continue to pay as the day progresses.

 

Sure, you may not feel like being positive right off the bat.

But if you wait for encouragement to come to you, then you might be waiting all day.

 

Instead, be the encouragement you seek. Be the instigator of your own successful day.

 

You can be the positive influence you are waiting for.

You can be the reason this day starts on an upbeat note.

 

The first few minutes of each day are ripe with opportunity.

Choose to start strong, and that strength will echo throughout the day.

 

 Ralph Marston

 

 

 

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