Blossoming Mindsets: Psychology, Purpose, and Personal Growth

  There Is Freedom in the Gap Between Their Behaviour and Your Response Sometimes you can give something your best and still walk away wondering whether anyone noticed. You contribute. You show up. You try to serve well. You carry responsibility seriously. And then someone’s behaviour leaves you feeling overlooked, dismissed, excluded, misunderstood or simply unappreciated. It can hurt.It can frustrate you.Sometimes it can even make you angry.And I think we should be honest about that. Emotional maturity does not mean becoming so detached that nothing affects us. Things will affect us. We are human. The question is not whether something affects us. The question is: What do we do with what it does to us? I have been thinking about this recently, and I caught myself noticing something important: There is freedom in the gap between their behaviour and my response. That gap may be only a few seconds.Sometimes it may be a few hours.Sometimes it may require a night of reflection, a conv...