| Imagine you are: | | | | actions. These people will stay calm, rebook their |
| * stuck in a traffic jam on the way to the airport | | | | appointments or flights and find something |
| * waiting a long time for waiter in a restaurant to | | | | worthwhile to do to fill the time. |
| order your meal during your lunch break | | | | Victims |
| * in the medical center, having a scheduled | | | | This group consists of people who believe that |
| doctor's appointment and they still haven't called | | | | they have no, or minimal, saying in their life. The |
| you half an hour later | | | | quality of their lives is most likely lower than what |
| What is your reaction? | | | | they would like it to be. When they find |
| Would you stay calm, use the extra time to | | | | themselves in such situations they get frustrated. |
| meditate, organize your thoughts, enjoy the | | | | Their suppressed long term anger and frustration |
| surroundings, have a conversation with strangers | | | | get to the surface. They get to feel trapped by |
| and look forward to the best outcome? | | | | circumstances. Depending on their character there |
| Or would you get frustrated and express your | | | | will be a difference in their outwards expression |
| frustration and anger to people around you? | | | | of their anger. The most common and "sociably |
| Whether we stay calm or get stressed about it | | | | acceptable" one is via their language & |
| depends on the level of responsibility we feel for | | | | vocabulary. |
| events in our life. Feelings of anger and stress are | | | | Happy to change? |
| results of lower level of our engagement in the | | | | The group that you can currently relate to |
| creation of our everyday reality. | | | | reflects your internal thoughts and external |
| There are two types of people depending on their | | | | actions. However, that is not set in stone. We all |
| response in such situations: | | | | can make changes to what we don't like in our |
| Creators | | | | life. Having an awareness of our current situation |
| This group consists of people who take full | | | | and acknowledging our own internal processing of |
| responsibility for everything that is happening in | | | | the outside world gives us possibility to do |
| their lives. These people believe that their life is | | | | something about it. |
| their own responsibility and whatever happens to | | | | Change is a process of several steps with |
| them is presented to them as a result of their | | | | acknowledgement and awareness being its |
| inaction or an opportunity to take appropriate | | | | important foundation. |