The Things You Have Control Of
Did you have a good Thanksgiving? Mine was good. A bit of a progressive involving a few stops…, but good all the same. I hope yours was as well?! I hope you were able to enjoy and be present in your gratefulness of all the things that you have. It’s easy to pay more attention of the things you lack. The things that are wrong. The things you’d like to change. This happens so much so that we often overlook all of the things in life that we do have, all the things in Life we can control. Same, Same?! It’s the same when it comes to dealing with conflict and violence. People often gravitate toward the things they can’t do rather than the things they can. Many waste precious time and energy fixating on all of the details they have little or no control over, rather than decisively acting on those things they have more influence on… Namely themselves. Here lies the practice of your training. Knowing what to focus and act upon vs. what not to. Seems simple enough, but many miss it. Rather...