Welcome back, my friends. We are bringing back our Monday motivation. Thank you for your

patience with me. So for today's Monday motivation, I want to talk to you about something that

I recently went over in one of my workshops that I was offering recently. And you can

find out more on my website, leadair.com. But we talked about this one little piece.

And I found it to be so important that I want to give it to you today for this Monday

motivation. So here it is. Your Monday motivation is that while you cannot control the circumstances

of your life, you can control how you respond to them. That's what you can control. So

often in our life, we can live our life. We can live our whole life. Unfortunately, sometimes

reacting to life, reacting to what comes into our life versus responding. And there's

a huge difference between these two of reacting and responding. Reacting is kind of like

the ready shoot aim, where we just went at whatever happens, bad news, good news, somebody

says something or something happens. And the kids spills all the milk over everything

or dumps all the milk in your shoe that just recently happened to me. The reacting piece

of us would want to initially just immediately just react with our emotions. It wants to

be frustrated, angry, yell, scream, whatever it might be, but it reacts without thought.

We responding without thinking. Now, when we actually respond, when we use that word,

when we respond to something, especially for us Christians, then we hopefully were taking

a holy pause. It is a pause where we're actually thinking about how we want to respond.

We're receiving the information of what just happened. And then we choose, ideally, the

better option instead of screaming, we're going to try to remain calm. We're going to pick

up the milk. We're going to empty him to the shoe full of milk and to the trash. And we

can respond. See, we have the power to do this in our life. We have the power to respond

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