th3 90/10 pr1nc1pl3.....

What I am about to write is something useful that can be applied to your life.Read it,understand it and it will change your life(or at least,the way you react to situations)

What is this principle?
10% of life is made up of what happens to you.Another 90% of life is decided by how you react....

What does this mean?
We really have no control over 10% of what happens to us.

Ex.
We cant stop the car from breaking down.
The plane will be late arriving,which throws our whole schedule off.
A driver may cut us off in the traffic.

We have really NO control over this 10%

BUT the other 90% is different.
YOU determine the other 90%

How?.... By your reaction.

You cant control a red light.
However you can control your reaction.

Do not let people foll you.
YOU can control how you react.

Let us use an example.....

You are having breakfast with you family.
Your daughter knocks over a cup of coffee
Onto your business shirt.
You have no control over what has just happened.

What happens next
will be determined by how you react.

You curse.
You harshly scold your daughter for knocing the cup over.
She breaks down in tears.

After scolding her,you turn yo your wife
and you criticize her for placing the cup
too close to the edge of the table.
A short verbal battle follows.

You storm upstairs and change your shirt.
Back downstairs,you find your daughter has been too busy crying
to finish her breakfast and getting ready to go to school.
She misses the bus.

You spouse must leave immediately for work.
You rush to the car and drive your daughter to school.

Because you are late,
you drive 40 miles per hour
in a 30mph speed limit zone.

After a 15-minute delay and throwing
RM150 traffic fine away,you arrive at school.
Your daughter runs into the building without saying goodbye.

After arriving at the office 20 minute late,
You realize you forgot your briefcase.
You day has started terrible.As it continues,it seems to get worse and worse.
You look forward to coming home.

When you arrive home,you find a small wedge
in your relationship with you wife and daughter.Why?

Because of how you reacted in the morning.

Why did you have a bad day?

A)Did the coffee cause it?
B)Did your daughter cause it?
C)Did the policeman cause it?
D)Did you cause it?

The answer in "D"

You have no control over what happened with the coffee.

How you reacted in those 5 seconds
is what caused your bad day.Here is what could have and should have happened.

Coffee splashes over you.
Your daughter is about to cry.

You gently say:
"It's okay,honey,you just need to be
More careful next time."

Grabbing a towel,you go upstairs and change your shirt.
You grab your briefcase,and you come back down in time to look through
the window and see your child getting on the bus.
She turns and waves.You arrive 5 minutes early and cheerfully greet the staff.

Notice the difference?

Two different scnarios.
Both started the same.
Both ended different.

Why?

Because of how you reacted.

You really have no contorl over 10%
of what happens in your life.

The other 90% determined by your reaction.

How do you react if someone cuts you off in traffic?

Do you lose your temper?
Pound on the sterring wheel?
Do you curse?Does your blood pressure skyrocket?
Who cares if you arrive 10 seconds later at work?
Why let the cars ruin your drive?

Remeber the 90/10 Principle
and dont worry about it.

You are told you lost your job.
Why lose sleep and get irritated?
It will work out.

Use you worrying energy and time
to find a a new job.

Millions of people are suffering
from undeserved stress,
trials,problems and headaches.

We all must understand and apply the 90/10 Principle.
It can change your life!

Absolutely everything we do,give,say,or even think,its like a Boomerang,
It will come back to us..If we want to recieve,we need to learn to give first...
Maybe we will end with our hands empty,
but our heart will be filled with love.....

And those who love life,have that feeling marked in their hearts.....
The End