Let’s get real here. How much time do you spend worrying about and trying to control other people’s actions? Are you still thinking about an exchange between you and another person on Sunday when today is Thursday?? Are you fretting about how you will have to see your abusive former spouse at 6 am when you will not have to share the same air space until 3 pm? Many of us find ourselves in these situations. Here is the bottom line. You do not control a friend and you do not control your former spouse. You have no control if a person likes you or turns a family function into a circus in order to get massive amounts of narcissist supply. Why would you stew, and in some cases make yourself sick, about people outside yourself in which you do not control?
What should you do instead? Be kind and genuine in both situations. If you fill yourself, you come from a place of fullness. If the moment is a challenge, focus on filling yourself and your future. Move the locus of control outside of yourself and place it within. Be your own source of happiness. Maintain a boundary around your mental health. And stop trying to control another human being. Focus on you.
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