Good Morning
I hope that like me, you all had a wonderful easter weekend. We walked for miles and saw some awesome rare birds of prey en route - Marsh Harriers - extremely regal and fantastically graceful in flight.
I am currently reading an exceptional book 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People' by Stephen R Covey (I strongly recommend a read folks).
In the first Habit - Be Proactive - Covey describes how Victor Frankl survived the horrors of his life experiences when imprisoned in concentration camps. He describes the fundamental human ability to create a positive world during a time of extreme stress and trauma. However, the most powerful message of all is that we as human beings have the ability to create our own world 'between stimulus and response, man has the freedom to choose'. This Covey writes is our gift as human beings, we can decide how our life is going to affect us.
This message is one of the most powerful messages that can be shared amongst our fellow human beings.....no matter what is happening in your life at this moment in time, you have the freedom to choose how you are going to respond to it. Your response is your response-ability! A very powerful message indeed.
We are aware what Happiness is and how it feels, therefore we choose at times to be Unhappy. We are aware what Positivity is and how it feels, and yet at times we choose to be and feel Negative. We are aware of what Stresslessness is and how it feels, yet at times we choose to be and feel Stressed. For those of you who have visited my website, this encapsulates the existential quote from John Paul Sartre, which ends 'I create myself'.
Humans have many wonderful and exceptional abilities including the ability to share. I do not mean the material objects that seem to be taking over our world; fundamentally the gift of sharing our knowledge is something, I believe, we should optimize.
Choose consciously and wisely.
I choose Positivity.
Joy
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