Reacting is weak. Responding is strong.
Reacting makes you a puppet, pulled along by a life that is out of your control.
Responding makes you powerful. A conscious action taker where a life “out of your control” is not a problem.
The fuel powering those reactions was my need to please others.
When I felt like something was wrong, my need to please kicked in. I did something to try to fix it and take that feeling away. That only fed the muscle more.
The way you starve that muscle is to stop feeding it completely. You make a conscious choice to stop reacting and to start responding.
The longer you do that, the smaller your “need to please” muscle gets. After a while, it doesn’t even register on your radar.
And that’s when you can get about the business you are here to do
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