Welcome to the Millionaire Mindcast, where we broadcast weekly interviews with millionaire

minds from across the globe to empower you on your journey of unlocking a rich and fulfilling life.

It's time to unleash your millionaire within. Now, here's your host, Maddie A.

What's going on, guys? Welcome into today's show, a little Friday food for thought.

The difference between responding and reacting. One of my weaknesses when I was younger was reacting

versus responding. Now, I want to give you a little context so you can

understand where I'm coming from. And I'll share with you why I believe this is such an important

skill to master. If you want to get wealthy, if you want to be happy, if you want to have thriving

relationships, you want to have the greatest

impact on others, then this is something that I invite everyone to challenge themselves to level up

in. This is an ongoing process for me, so I'm preaching to myself. But while one could argue that

you know, reacting and responding are the same thing,

here's where I would classify them a little bit differently and where I'd like to bring your

attention to. Reacting is often an immediate natural response, and based on your programming,

that reaction could be good or bad. You're at the mercy of

whatever your default programming is. And if you're anything like I used to be, and still sometimes

can be, right? Nobody's perfect. But my awareness has been really elevated up around this over the last few

years, last decade or so, I would get triggered really

easily. And, of course, as a result of that, I'd react in a negative way. Why? Because my programming

was poor. And therefore, my reactions came off poorly. And guess what? The outcomes or the results

weren't very good as well. I'd react in anger or

frustration or get stressed out or communicate poorly or just make bad decisions and of course as a

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