Chose your battles wisely
Are you sometimes catching yourself nagging, fighting and quarreling, wondering how to get out of the negative spiral?
In the past months I have much more consciously chosen my battlefields, asking myself: is it worth fighting, quarreling, confronting someone about an issue? Or can I actually accept the issue as a non-issue and save my energies?
In Winston Churchill's words, "You will never reach your destination, if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks."
Once you go into helicopter mode, it might well be that your issue disappears. When you challenge yourself to see your issue from a different perspective, you might realise that it’s not at all that important. And as a consequence, instead of spending your energies battling the issue, engulfed in negative energy, you empower yourself to re-direct your energies onto something positive. By re-directing your energies, you will receive even more energies from the positive results that you trigger! And so you succeed in turning the negative spiral into a positive one, making you happy, cherishing the present moment for the gift it is.
