With so much noise in the world about what is happening in our country, our communities, our relationships with each other, and often our relationship with ourselves, it is important to pause and anchor into the place where we have power, and the person we have power over.
The singular answer to this is ourselves.
No matter what tactics or persuasive tools we might use when confronted with difficult situations and conflicts in relationships the one person we control is ourselves.
The most important question to ask ourselves in all situations both within ourselves and with others is, “What do I really want?”
If you could create an ideal outcome when dealing with difficulties both internal and external, what would it be, and how will you get there?
How might you relate with yourself and others to achieve that goal?
Your strategy may get you to that outcome, or perhaps it won’t, but you will have engaged with it from a place of integrity and confidence instead of an attempt to coerce or control another or treating yourself in an unkind and self defeating manner.
We are never powerless in any situation, but the limits of our power reside within ourselves, our choices, and our actions.
