Comments on: Accept the events you cannot control http://www.toach.net/blog/2009/04/20/accept-the-events-you-cannot-control/ Working as Expected Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:27:49 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Wendy Carberg http://www.toach.net/blog/2009/04/20/accept-the-events-you-cannot-control/comment-page-1/#comment-20091 Wendy Carberg Sun, 03 May 2009 01:55:44 +0000 http://www.toach.net/blog/2009/04/20/accept-the-events-you-cannot-control/#comment-20091 <p>I very much appreciate your position that the one thing you have control over is your reaction and response...it's true for everyone, but especially impactful for those in leadership positions whose actions are very visible and responses create chain reactions.</p> <p>I had a week the challenged my utter need to control, and my stewing over it overflowed into the weekend. This meant that I carried it with me for my Saturday morning run, where I also had a revelation about control and accepting certain things will never change, letting go of trying to control them...esp when, quite frankly, the impact of them staying the same doesn't mean a whole lot.</p> I very much appreciate your position that the one thing you have control over is your reaction and response…it’s true for everyone, but especially impactful for those in leadership positions whose actions are very visible and responses create chain reactions.

I had a week the challenged my utter need to control, and my stewing over it overflowed into the weekend. This meant that I carried it with me for my Saturday morning run, where I also had a revelation about control and accepting certain things will never change, letting go of trying to control them…esp when, quite frankly, the impact of them staying the same doesn’t mean a whole lot.

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