Being Reactive

Being reactive has an impact you, me and everyone. 
The definition of reacting is to respond or behave in a particular way in response to something. When our goal is to grow but we continue to react in the same manner as we always have, we can’t expect new results. 
Einstein said this brilliantly with his definition of insanity - doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. 
The reason why we react is because our emotions trigger a specific response in certain scenarios.
If we deconstruct the word down to its original roots, the word “re” comes from 17th-century latin meaning intensive force or reversal. And this is exactly what happens. When we react our emotions force a response that we don’t have conscious control over. 
Sometimes we may not even want to react that way, but we do because it’s our default pattern. 
I’ve recently been spending more time becoming aware o [...]