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Speaker: Vince Klassen
\n\u201cThe hardest thing you\u2019ll ever do is admit that you\u2019re [part of the problem]\u201d
\nI was reading an article recently that had my paraphrased\xa0quote as the byline. “That’s a bit harsh”\xa0I thought! And yet as I sat with this, I started to look at the difficult parts of my holiday season where, if I’m really honest, I was part of the problem.\xa0 I played a role in what went down. Sometimes\xa0it was obviously me being the problem. Sometimes my role was responding poorly when someone else was the the problem, my response just making everything worse. Sometimes I\xa0got angry back, or withdrew, or got quiet, or got nasty.\xa0 But I did make things worse.
\nThe problem was, I didn’t know what was causing my\xa0bad behavior. I didn’t know the trigger.
\nDo you?
\nWe often walk into situations without a conscious awareness of things that are going to make us snap, or suck all our energy out, or any number of responses. We try to control our responses but what if we looked underneath and started to see what caused them. Deal with the root cause?
\nWhat would it look like going into the Holidays with an awareness of what might set us off? Be able to manage the triggers instead of having to apologize for our bad responses?\xa0Be it blowing up and having to apologize, or pretending we can’t make an event, or drinking more than we should to get through? What if we could do better?
\nThat’s our goal this week.
\nAnd surprisingly, I think the author Luke from the Bible had this in mind when he wrote his story of Jesus’s birth and early life.
\nSee you at the Spiritual Gym. Invite a\xa0friend\xa0who might need some help in this area. Or send it to them after you hear the talk if it resonates with you.
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