Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn’t shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else. Don’t allow others to control the direction of your life. Don’t allow your emotions to suppress your intelligence.
Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn’t shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else. Don’t allow others to control the direction of your life. Don’t allow your emotions to suppress your intelligence.
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Are you in complete control?
When things are not going exactly the way you are expecting, do you lose it? Or do you find the elasticity within yourself to roll with the problems and work towards the solutions?
Mastery over one’s self is an art form that requires regular diligence and attention to ensure we are on top of our game, all of the time.
This does not mean that every aspect of every circumstance is always going to yield a beneficial outcome, but rather every circumstance creates an opportunity for us to leverage everything that we have learned prior, in favor of creating an even better outcome for ourselves than what we might have previously envisioned, when the circumstance originated.
There are so many times when a specific individual will create very conflicting feelings within us. Are we best taking our aggression out at that moment, or might we be better served to remain impassive and placid in our approach?
Man is very much like steel. Once we lose our temper, we collapse. All the more reason for us to recognize that the strength to true power is reserving any negative response for only the most necessary of circumstances, and in every other case, leaving every aspect of our frustration, disappointment, and irritation, to remain in the recesses of our mind, where they may best be dealt with in an intelligent manner.
The great secret to being tactful, is an understanding that many times what you most want to say in a particular moment is not the right response. If anything, learning the power of silence is one of the great benchmarks of mastery of this particular type.
As we get older, and we reflect back on the circumstances when we chose to angrily respond to someone or something that has served us with any injustice, our net takeaway from that reflection, is a recognition that perhaps, if we had handled that circumstance differently, we might have generated a better outcome.
Learning the art of self control is one of the more difficult life lessons for us to attend to, but questionably, it is one of the most important and most valuable strategic options we could ever dedicate our time and focus towards.
Happy Friday!
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