*.* What's your choice then ?? *.*
"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain."-we can't predict when we will face storms in life, we can't determine how long it will last..we are stop things from happening, we can't forsee what will happen next, but we can decide how we want to face it..what we are going to do about it and how we can react to it..it do make a difference like what Stephen Covey quoted"
10% of life is made up of what happens to you. …90% of life is decided by how you react… "
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sometimes we might just underestimate the impact we make when we response or react to things. Stephen Covey hightlights one good example of how our reaction can make a difference to the outcome. He illustrates his point with a simple scenario and 2 different responds that resulted in 2 entirely different outcome. Picture with me this scenario where a father was having breakfast with his daughter. Unconsciously, his daughter actually spilled a cup of coffee onto his business shirt. With that, he got mad and scolded her badly. He then criticized his wife for placing the cup to the edge of the table and angrily, he went to change his shirt. Now the daughter being too upset with her father took even longer time to finish her breakfast. Because of that, the daughter miss her school bus and the father has to rush to send her to school and ended up being late for work and a series of mishap happens that make you feel that today is just not your day.But was it true ? Consider this: the same scenario but this time rather than reprimanding the daughter and lecturing his wife, the father comforted the daughter telling her it's not her fault then when up to change. The daughter smiled apologetically and quickly finished her breakfast. She was on time to catch her bus and the father was able to report to work on time. Same scenario...difference outcome..what makes the difference ?? Perhaps in our daily lives we do face such experience too...lift breakdown when we so tired after a long day at work...new phone went missing in just a day..boyfriend come to your house to initiate a breakup..wanting a warm bath after a 3 day 2 night camp and you realise the tap is not functioning...I personally encounter many "suay" things in life..After reading the above story from Stephen, I began to have a new perspective of things...and life..."If you can have the choice to decide how you react to things ...why not taking it in a more positive perspect ? " Sometimes we really need some " jin ri liang yan" from people to be awake.....
"I know my joy is not decided by my circumstance...but in Him...."
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