There is a quote out there about attitudes by a guy named Charles Swindoll. I don’t know the origin of the story but if you’ve never read it I highly recommend that you do… You can find it and print it out for free here.

As many of you know I am a huge fan of personal development. I love to find anything possible out there that I can watch or read that can help to elevate my mindset to the next level. I am a firm believer in duplicating the success of others. So much so that I found some principles to live by that I learned from Motivational Speaker Zig Ziglar that I wanted to share.

So one day I’m out and about and I stopped by Half Price Books and while I was looking around I noticed a 4 cassette tape series by Zig Ziglar. (Sorry I can’t think of the name right now)

It was on sale for $1.00 so I couldn’t refuse… Anyway, one day I was listening to one of my tapes and Zig started to discuss the topic of whether or not we respond to life or do we react? He went a little further to break it down by saying that to respond to life is positive while reacting was negative.

I didn’t quite get the concept at first until he used the following illustration…

He said that when a person is sick and they have to go to a doctor that a doctor will give them a prescription for their illness. After several days the doctor calls you back in to check your progress and is concerned that your body is reacting to the medicine. So of course you’re body has had a negative response and he changes your prescription.

Now after you’ve changed medicines and gone back to the doctor for your next follow up visit the doctor is excited and happy and tells you that your body is responding to the medicine and that everything is going to be alright.

So the next time that you have an altercation, argument, or any other type of potentially stressful situation I want you to ask yourself this question:

Did I respond to that situation or did I react?

By learning to respond to life’s situations and circumstances instead of reacting, you have much more power over the situation itself as well as your attitude towards it.

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Okay so today I woke up and headed out to the car so I could go and withdraw some money from the bank. To my dismay I realized that my car was on a flat. Before I could become engrossed in a fit of extreme rage, I decided to weigh my options in this situation.

What would I gain had I decided to get extremely angry, start hooting and hollering, snorting and growling and screaming?

NOTHING….

Absolutely nothing would have changed except for the fact of me being extremely angry. Yet I would still have been sitting on a flat tire unable to drive my car.

At first I felt that it would only be appropriate for me to go over and kick the flat tire and give the car a piece of my mind. Or maybe even call up the tire shop where I got my last set of tires and threaten to burn the shop down due to the inconvenience  I was being caused.

Fortunately, you and I both have a choice as to how we will respond to things that take place in our lives on a daily basis. While I am not happy to have a flat tire it could have been worse…. I could have had four!

I believe that many times if people would only take a moment to breath and truly assess the situations that are in front of them that they could make much more responsible decisions and keep themselves out of trouble.

Obviously we can not change the inevitable, or that which is already done for that matter. All we can do is change the way that we respond to situations rather than reacting to them improperly.