It’s easy to be positive and loving when things are going our way.

But what about when life squeezes us in stressful ways?

It’s in these moments that we have to decide if we want to be someone who spews love or anger.

However, what often happens is we fail to see this choice and automatically react with frustration and anger.

If we’re not careful, the frustration from this one particular stressor can begin to influence every area of our life, causing seemingly minor things to quickly become major annoyances.

The only way to change the compounding ripple effect of this pattern is to recognize that it was our choice to react to the initial stressor through anger and frustration.

The stressor didn’t cause the frustration (or anger), our reaction to it did. Therefore, the power to respond differently is still in our hands (and always has been).

When we own this choice, we can make a new one. One that has the potential to make peace with the initial stressor.

Or if we’re unable to do that, we can still own how we decided to react to the stressor …

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