Today’s Transformation – Response: to Act or to React

The study of the states of being is a branch of metaphysics called ontology. The best way to explain it is by example.  

For instance, on one day a mother comes home from work to a messy house. She screams at the kids, tears around the place proclaiming, “You have no consideration, I have to do all the work around here. Now get into your rooms a clean them… and don’t come out until they are clean!”

Same house, same mom on another day. She comes home to the same mess, but this time she says calmly, “Ok, you guys, time to clean up the house. Let’s all pitch in and get this place tidied up and then we’ll fix dinner together. Won’t that be fun?”

The obvious difference between the two scenes is who she is being in the moment. In the first scene she is upset and out of control, in the second, calm and in charge. What happened between the first scenario and the second? For whatever reason who she was being was altered, different. And, this is what we have control over in every situation in our lives. We get to say how we are going to act.

Within our ability to act, rather than react, lives the power of personal responsibility and transformation.

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