SELF CONTROL

“Any person capable of angering you, becomes your master. He can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.”
-Epictetus

Who is in control or your emotions? Yourself? Or have you given that privilege to someone else. Your emotions are the rudder of your being. It can steer you into dangerous zones or in clear waters. But you have to man the rudder yourself. Why are you giving the helm to someone else? How do they know where you even want to go? Half the time we don’t even like the people we are handing this control over to.

You have to (well you should) bathe and brush your teeth every day, you have to work out on a regular basis to stay in shape, you have to eat and drink water every day to stay alive. Same with control, this is something you need to exercise everyday and not take it for granted. If you sit by and hope it will happen all by itself, you are acting like the guy who is sitting on the couch eating potato chips and drinking beer while watching an exercise program on TV. I am pretty sure he won’t lose weight and get in shape that way.
Get off the mental couch and exercise your self control!!!!