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For those who celebrated Christmas or another holiday or no day at all yesterday, I hope it was great!

We had an incredible day. Lots of laughter and far too much food.

Maybe it’s not an accident that Christmas is just a few days before the new year. It provides a handy excuse to spend and eat more than we should. We totally convince ourselves that we’ll just be “bad” for a few days and then repair all the damage on the 1st.

The key to actually doing that is ruling your results.

Review…

Law #1: Control your time.

Law #2: Control your thoughts.

Law #3: Control your actions.

New…

Rule Your Results: Law #4 – Control Your Reactions.

We’re talking about controlling YOUR time, thoughts and actions. But you can’t control everything. You certainly cannot control people. There’s no telling what those crazy folks might say or do!

“You’re wanting to do what? Make money on the internet? Have you lost your mind?”

“You’re wanting to lose weight and shape up? Didn’t you have that same goal last year?”

“Quit dreaming and get a real job.”

“Look, maybe you just need to face reality.”

How do you react to stuff like that?

Do you…

Think they are right?

Get angry and want to prove them wrong?

Wonder why they pick on you?

Wipe a tear and then entertain giving it all up?

Control, control, control all of that.

But often the enemy isn’t “out there” and might not even be “them.”

Sometimes the enemy is a lot closer. Right inside our own heads (that’s why controlling thoughts is so important).

Sometimes it’s the bright red “hot donuts now” sign at Krispy Kreme (that’s why we control our actions).

Sometimes it’s one more slap on the snooze button (that’s why we control our time).

And if your head, a donut or sleep wins… then there’s a tiny, subtle reaction that can take place.

It’s dangerous too.

It’s called the “OK” reaction.

OK creates a false belief. A way of convincing ourselves that this failure to control time, thoughts or action is “just this one time. I’ll just cheat this once. Just a little. I’ll get right back on track tomorrow. “

(insert a low soft whistle as you read)

whoa.

That’s treacherous.

“It’s OK. Just this once” will KILL your dreams, resolutions and good intentions. They turn into chain reactions and then it’s over.

Whether you get angry at someone attacking your dreams or you get lax and unintentionally drop them one donut at a time – both are failures to control your reaction. The way you deal with what’s confronting you at the moment. Some things are major, some are minor, but all are resolution deadly.

Reaction does not have to be unmeasured and unchecked.

Protect yourself from runaway recoil…

01 :: Advanced Decisions

Chances are high that nothing unusual derailed you in the past. Everything I mentioned above is normal. And all of those could have a premeditated response.

You could easily prepare yourself and laugh at the skeptic, call your mind a liar, or yell, “NO!” to the donut.

You already know 90% of what you’re going to come up against. You can decide right now what you will do or say, so you don’t have to think about it at all when it shows up.

02 :: Accurate Assessment

Don’t OVERreact.

I hear people say things like, “I’m a complete failure.”

What?

That’s not even possible.

“I never do anything right.”

Huh?

Get logical. Think for a few minutes and really consider the situation before jumping to crazy conclusions.

03 :: Arrest Emotions

When it comes to reacting, more emotion is not better.

One time in India we did not use the right taxi system. About 20 drivers surrounded our vehicle. They threatened to disassemble the SUV and hurt our driver.

What if I had stepped up, got in their faces and screamed, “I’m an American and you can’t treat us like that!!!!”?

Yeah, I might not be writing this right now.

I couldn’t let my emotions take advantage of the situation. It could have been disastrous.

When have you ever made a solid, high emotion decision?

When have you ever made a BAD high emotion decision?

I’m betting the second list is waaaaaaaaaay longer. I mean waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay longer.

Enough said.

Control your time.

Control your thoughts.

Control your actions.

Control your reactions.

Success is NOT an Accident!
Paul

P.S. Monday we’ll end this series with Law #5. Control your C____________.

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