3 Simple Words That Can Change Who You Are
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The Fork In the Road of Change
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As I lay in bed last night reading I was nearly rocked out of bed by the below quote:
“Instead of being a victim of what life presents us, we can choose to be the source, the creator of how we will respond and how we will be affected by the challenge. Our response is our opportunity to define who we choose to be.” -Dr. Joe Rubino from The Power To Succeed Book 1
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I hope you read that a few times actually because for me it’s a very very powerful statement. My favorite line of the quote; “Our response is our opportunity to define who we choose to be.” Every moment is a chance at a new life, a new reality and a new way of wealth.
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I’m going to focus on the 3 words that stood out so you have a stable platform to launch yourself from. Response, Opportunity & Choice.
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What Is Your “Response”
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So do you respond or do you react to life? Let’s break down these two words for you so you have a clear understanding of the difference because this will dictate your state and where you come from in your everyday decisions.
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When you react to something, you tend to act in response to an agent or influence. This could mean you’re not grounded or centered in your beliefs, thoughts or values.
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When you have no point of reference and someone says something directed at you that is hateful, spiteful or mean spirited, you react with the same hostility or cry and back away. This is known as your reaction.
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Or maybe you lose your job (Like 533,000 people did last month) & now you find yourself reacting in a way that finds you depressed, hopeless and desperate.
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The bottom line is you don’t feel at all that you have any choices in the matter. Your emotions are like laundry on a clothes line in the wind. Just going where the wind blows them. You are at the mercy of everyone and anything that commits it’s energy at you. Have you ever felt like this? I don’t know about you but that doesn’t sound like fun.
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Response is a completely different place that you come from. Through daily meditation, prayer and commitment to your own awareness, you have a solid foundation of who you are, where you come from and what you stand for. (Take time to identify your values) If someone comes along and directs their spite, hate and anger towards you; you aren’t affected as much if at all. This reminds me of a great story:
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One day a Kung Fu master and and his apprentice were walking down a path when an angry old man walking towards them started yelling obscenities at them. Cursing them up and down as he approached them. The wise master did not react but kept walking.
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The old man became even more angry and as he walked past them he purposely shoved the wise master. Again the wise master did and said nothing but continued to walk.
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The Kung Fu masters apprentice, nothing short of shocked, could not understand why his master would tolerate such behavior considering he could have easily defended himself and disposed of the angry & violent old man.
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Later, he then asked his master why he did not defend himself or retaliate against the angry old man.
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The master looked to him and said, “If I was to give you a gift and you did not take it, to whom would the gift still belong to still?”
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The young apprentice knew then the difference between reacting and responding. He was now open to the opportunity of living through responding.
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Every Moment Is An “Opportunity”
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There is opportunity in all that we experience; good as well as in bad. Much like the young apprentice learned. Matter of fact I’d say there is probably more opportunity in bad times than there is good!
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I remember reading in Real Magic by Wayne Dyer that when you live with regret that you’re living in the past. When you worry about what’s going to happen you’re living negatively in the future. However what are you doing with today’s current moment, which happens to be called The Present?
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It’s called the present because today, right now this very moment, is a gift. If or when you choose to accept it, will determine when you start living.
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Choose to start living. 
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photo credit: Casino Jones
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It’s Time to “Choose”
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Choice can be the most overlooked idea I know of in self improvement. Choice is not about what to do, it’s a decision about who you are and is predetermined by your current beliefs you have about yourself.
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I can tell you at certain points even in my life I’ve not thought very much of myself and in those moments my choices were not very good ones for myself or those around me.
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They were choices based on me believing I still was the memories I had of myself. I was living in the past and thinking I was my memories as Joe Vitale states from Zero Limits.
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Choose to clean those memories away with “I love you, I’m sorry, please forgive me & thank you,” and you are able to live in the moment and be open to inpsiration instead of living from your past memories or the fear of what may go wrong in the future.
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self esteem is based on your beliefs of yourself and to allow your authentic self to shine you must believe and know you are much more. The only way to do that is to clean your old memories away. You are divinity and at one with god.
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You are an amazing human being not a human doing as Wayne Dyer says.
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Your response to any one person, event or emotion in your life starting today, is an opportunity to define who you choose to be. To live with awareness, love and inspiration in your life is not only possible, it actually already is. You only require to be open to it. Let go of the past memories of yourself that un-inspire you and take away from you living in the moment.
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You and I must support one another of this awareness daily.
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This is what it means to live a whole new way of wealth in your life.
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