It is time to take charge of your mind, and as a result, take charge of your body!
It is time to become welcome in your own mind and body. Why allow yourself to be conflicted by all the news and trouble that others bring to you every day. Take the time to be in yourself knowing who you are and who you love and who loves you. Forget being distracted by ambition. This only brings you more frustration, more anger. Your family and coworkers are individuals who share the same frustrations and anxieties. Instead of responding to them with anger, try responding them with love, or at least a little tenderness.
Your responses of anger and frustration please no one, including yourself. However, they do have long lasting effects. The short-term effect is the possibility of everyone just walking away displeased with nothing getting accomplished that day. However, the longer-term effect is that your coworkers may feel that you can no longer be trusted or respected. They learned that there’s a sharpness about you making them wary of you with a defined line that cannot be crossed. They no longer trust you and may no longer wish to be in your company.
The same can be true of your family. Your children could become afraid of you and will not trust you, will not come to you with their troubles. And you then strike out in anger more often. They also lose you as a mentor. They ask themselves what if any are the rules in the family for you and for them. And this will affect them for the rest of their lives. Such harsh unclear rules for children at age 10 or 12 living 70 years, losing that close trust with a parent, can be and often is devastating, one way or another to the child. On the other hand, if you hold that anger and everything in it, even if you don’t feel it, answer your children in love. Conceal your anger, your displeasure. Your coworkers and your family will eventually understand the mistake, will recognize your frustration and appreciate your calmness.
But more than that, they will see the trust that you put in them. And the love that comes along with it. They will see that strong foundation of love in you. So that they will come along, I’m sorry, they will come back to you. And again, what’s wrong with problems? And when at times to build that team, they’re anxious to be on your team and support your efforts. So, at work it becomes a win-win proposition.
And at home with your family. No matter how tired and frustrated you are if you stop, take a breath approach your children with love. Take that time to take off the business show clothes. And be with your children, show them the Daddy side, crawl on the floor with them. Play with their toys with them, let them show you how to build one toy with another. All right, don’t. I don’t either! But I do let my grandsons explain them to me, maybe climb all over me. And when they run off to do something else, I look at my son or my wife. And I go, wow. Now I really don’t understand what a transformer is. And they laugh at me. As they helped me to my feet and set me back down in the chair. I know I’ll never be able to move again on my own. But, you know, I loved every minute.
Looking back on my relatively long life, in my sphere of influence, yesterday was our time for God’s perfection; and today is our time for God’s perfection. And as we stand together, claiming wholeness, not rightness, with God’s perfection as our guide, will also be our tomorrow and always.
©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
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