I don’t know why I’m thinking about this tonight, maybe because stuff happened that left me a little sad, but I can’t help thinking about that idea from Stephen Covey about stimulus and response.
That our integrity, how our life shapes up is determined in that small gap between stimulus and response.
My alarm ring at 5 am, I have a choice, get up to do my edits or sleep an extra two hours. My boys are running wild in the house, I can either start shouting at them or take a deep breath and move to another room for 5 minutes to regroup.
Big changes in our life are sometimes created in that tiny sliver of time. Which choice we make depends on our character and sometimes chosing the harder side also builds up our character.
At some point, we stop reacting to events without thought and chose the path towards our life’s big picture. It’s not easy, but it gets easier and small pain of today go away for authentic life blessings of tomorrow.
Wrote 300 words to Ancient Whispers today, a small new scene for my revision. And I addressed 14 editor’s comments, the easy ones. 35 to go!
Blessed Be.
Winter morning by =Kechake on deviantART
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