Q word emotions emotional agility is something critical to…

Q word emotions emotional agility is something critical to have and to teach. Things are not always going to go your way. Emotional agility is an inoculation against the unknown it is the power the strength the faith and confidence to deal with situations that don't go our way. You will always hear stories of many unexpected detours along the way. The successful people use emotional agility to get around them. The first step in teaching emotional agility is to teach acceptance of situations which help us stop struggling with the emotion surrounding shoulds like this should not be this way they shouldn't have done this I shouldn't have to do this. There are other steps to emotional agility. The first step is to accept thoughts and emotions instead of struggling against them. Secondly, instead of jumping the conclusions, exercise curiosity about experiences. The goal here is to navigate the world as it is not as how we want it to be. Make sure that you stay in reality and the children stay in reality. The next step is to teach children that they're not passive observers in their own lives. They are in the driver seat and they have the ability to choose how they respond in any given situation. And how we deal with our inner world drives everything. We don't have control over what happened, but we do have control over our reaction. As Victor Frankel said " between stimulus and response there's a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." In the duties of the heart it says that every human action has three components The first is the decision to do, the second is our efforts, and the third is the results. The first and second they're up to us but the third is up to God. Another step is connecting with our y. Why are you here or why are you doing this. When you remind yourself of bigger goals your shock absorbers become more effective as you bump along life's road. To be emotionally rigid in the face of complexity is toxic.

— from The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy) · Light at the beginning of the tunnel

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I once read a single paragraph that changed my life — the idea that between what happens to you and how you respond, there is a gap, and that the key to both your growth and your freedom lives inside that gap. Viktor Frankl, who survived the camps, said it best: between stimulus and response there is a space; in that space is our power to choose our response; and in our response lies our growth and our freedom. An immature person has almost no gap — the feeling and the act are the same event. — The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy)

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