What is in your circle of control?
Continuing with our exercise on what we control and influence in our lives . . . it is now time to draw one final circle. Place this circle inside your circle of influence. It will be smaller than the other two.
Your circle of control is those areas of your life over which you have direct control. Just pause and reflect for a bit. What are they? Go ahead and write down everything that you control in your circle of control.
What did you write in your circle of control? Did you write your children or your spouse? Really? Please do let me know how you control them as I have not figured out that one yet!!
It is common to write many things that upon reflection turn out NOT to be within our control. So go ahead and delete those now.
Upon a bit of reflection, it becomes clear that the only things we have control over are:
our attitudes
our words
our actions
and our reactions to what happens in our life
(Do we have control over our thoughts and feelings? That is an entirely different subject to be discussed at a later time but good to reflect upon in the meantime!)
Getting clear on what is in your circle of control is an essential step to living a powerful life.
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