Pick Your Response

“An infected mind is far more dangerous pestilence than any plague — one only threatens your life, the other destroys your character.”

Marcus Aurelius

The conditions we’ve been placed in don’t make optimism easy to come by.

But it is times such as the one we’re in* which separates the righteous versus the rest of the pack.

And it does not matter if you’re rooting for the dust ball or the orangutan because you still have to wake up and put two feet on the ground.

And worrying about things out of your control will erode your conscience.

Both have shown their incompetencies and it’s the best we’ll get at this time.

So instead of shaking your fist at the air — control how you respond.

What matters is not what others are doing but what you do.

*For the non-US readers — it’s election day in the “United” States

I’ve been waiting to write this post for a couple weeks — it’s an area of my life I’ve been able to improve and I see a vast amount of people struggle with this very concept.

I credit this mindset to the Bible and Stoic Philosophy — I read both daily to some capacity and it’s paid dividends.

I hope you find something to spark a change: