In that space is our power to choose our response.

In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Viktor E. Frankl

Probably one of the most powerful things I have ever read.

All this coming from a man enslaved in Nazi death camps, not knowing whether his wife and family were alive or dead.

Frankl went deep inside and came up with some of the most effective writing you can find.

We can apply it to mood and state management, coaching, training and, for our purpose, health.

Read the above quote again with your biggest current challenge in mind.

The stimulus could be an 'I've had enough' moment, medical intervention, life circumstance change, negative comment from someone or a flash of inspiration.

Anything that happens, basically.

The power to choose our action, reaction or plan in this space is OURS for the taking

Stepping back and taking in the reality of the situation after the stimulus and taking appropriate action when all the possible outcomes have been thought through is where we grow and evolve.

NOT taking this pause and charging into action, or running the other way, reduces or wipes out our chance to grow.

We are taken aback by the power of nature and how in all living things are in symmetry with each other.

The 'squashy supercomputer' between your ears is THE most adaptive, responsive and incredible known thing in the universe with the infinite capacity to learn and change.

• Feed it bad data with no space to adapt and you get bad output.
• Add in good, clean, thorough data with processing space and we get the power that Vickor Frankl talks about.
  

Attempting to spend time in this 'space' and observe our reactions, emotions and auto-responses, almost from a distance, to formulate an effective response upgrades our operating system. 

Get this process right and we change our behaviour from within.

Not by trying to act a certain, expected way that society expects us to, but it creates a wisdom that works in the background guiding us with authentic, honest and the upmost credibility.

Win the inner battles and the external will look after itself

Do we need extrinsic rewards when we have the intrinsic successes?

1. Recognise each thing that happens to you, each choice that comes up or decision you face as a STIMULUS...
   
2. ....PAUSE....
3. ....then choose that response with wisdom!

If someone in confinement, half starved and at his lowest can change the world with only his mind to keep him company imagine what you can do with the freedom of choice and expanse of resources you have available NOW.

Now, THAT's a stimulus  ^^^^^^^^

J