How do you begin your day? Does the alarm jolt you out of bed? Or is it the call of your dog’s bladder as he runs his icy nose across your arm and rousts you out of bed to open the door? Maybe its the sounds of your kids fighting over the last bowl of Cocoa Puffs or that spousal reminder for the 20th time to “Don’t forget” some important thing you must pick up or else the world will end as you know it.
In this moment, this “right now” moment, your entire day is predicated. How will you respond?
On Saturday’s Unlock Your Wealth Radio show we talked about keeping our passions in perspective at every given moment, not just when it comes to our money, bills and personal finances. It would be very easy to lash out at any one or more of these scenarios as they are all “straw breaking the camel’s back” eligible in my opinion. We still have to get vertical, address all these things plus get our ownselves to work as well. If we allow a biochemical dump to occur and sour our stomachs first thing in the morning by reacting emotionally charged, what does that do for the rest of our day? What tone will that set for you and your family about mornings? More important, what long term detrimental effects will it have on your health, marriage, wealth, finances and family?
On Saturday’s Unlock Your Wealth Radio broadcast we offered this theory, between stimulus and response there is a space. In this space is your power to choose an appropriate response. Before you choose, think about this: communication is 100% your responsibility, NOT to get your point across, rather to elicit the right result. Now, does that statement change the choice you had in mind originally? Why or why not?
What would you choose in that space? What did you choose this morning? How did that work out for you? What did you learn?
These are not rhetorical questions. Please share your answers by posting to this blog.
Happiness is a choice not a circumstance some have and others do not. If you are not choosing happiness daily, hourly, minute by precious minute, why?
To your financial independence,
Heather Wagenhals
Monday, February 1, 2010
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