Response-Ability: Freedom to Choose Responses

Look at the word responsibility—“response-ability”—the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

Instead of saying:
  That [frustrated/annoyed/angered/...] me.
  OR I am [frustrated/annoyed/angered/...].
  
  Instead State: I CHOOSE to be [xxx/yyy] by this.

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• GlassThought.com
• Be Proactive: We are responsible for our own lives.