You drive home from work in a good mood and sing to your favorite music. Just one more traffic circle and you'll be with your loved ones. You drive casually into the traffic circle and already notice that the car in front of you is somehow unsafe. You want to go home and are secretly annoyed that the car in front of you is driving so slowly. Shortly before your exit, the car in front of you slams on the brakes and you almost hit it. You almost had a rear-end collision, just because the "Id..... in front of you" braked for no reason. Your good mood has long since evaporated and you scold like a mule.
But honestly, is it worth it? Of course not!
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to consciously control your reactions and thus become the "master of reaction"? This is exactly what this challenge is about. You choose a situation (e.g. driving a car) where you often get angry and try to consciously control your reactions in this situation for 30 days.
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Having and showing emotions is something positive, but just not always.
Being able to consciously control your emotions helps you to better deal with everyday problems and difficult situations:
- Stressful situations can no longer harm you, because you remain calm
- Your relationships improve
- You reach your goals faster because you can move forward in a more focused and rational way
- Your thoughts belong to you and you are no longer a plaything of negative emotions
How can you control your reactions (emotions)?
Psychology says that emotions can be controlled in four steps:
- Change your focus
- Think rationally
- Accept your feelings
- Come into action
Change your focus
Emotions arise from a mental evaluation of a situation and come out as a reaction. So if you want to feel differently, you have to change your focus. Using the example of "swearing while driving", you could shift your focus from the other drivers to yourself. You could be proud of yourself for recognizing the situation in time. Your reactions are completely different. Instead of anger, a satisfied smile appears on your face.
Think rationally
Not only do your thoughts influence your feelings, but often your feelings influence your thoughts. So it could be, for example, that your anger about the "senseless" slowing down of the speed in you has thoughts like "Has he won his driver's license in the lottery?" is generated. A corresponding reaction is then unfortunately the natural consequence. So you must always be aware that a certain feeling has a concrete effect on your thoughts.
Accept your feelings
If you accept the above mentioned feeling and just let it be there, sooner or later it will disappear by itself. It is easier to be aware that a certain feeling is there right now and to accept it than to want to actively fight against it. The feeling will pass and then you will have won.
Come into action
When you're angry, sad, or down, you probably do things that reinforce those emotions. However, these behaviors cause your negative emotions to become even stronger.
And now you need to take action to change this! To change your negative emotions, you should do things that change your mood.
How does the "Master Your Reaction" Challenge work?
You identify a situation in which you would like to change your reactions. In the example above, this was, for example, driving a car. Now you try to consciously control your reactions and emotions for 30 days. How you can do this, we have written down in short form.
Have you done it? Then keep this new behavior and write us. You will receive your Life Score points for it, because you have improved your life a little bit again.
Life Score points for the Master Your Reaction Challenge
If you have managed to master your reactions for one month at one thing, then you have 20 Life-Score Points .
So you can take part at the Master Your Reaction CHALLENGE .
- Master your reactions in a specific situation for 30 days
- If you have done that, please fill out the form below.
- We will then send you the marble.
The Master Your Reaction Challenge on social media
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