Working day in and day out with family can at times be challenging! Here at our farm, ranch and feedlot my husband and I work with his 81 year-old father, his two brothers, and our employees. Most of the time this is a blessing as we work together through droughts, blizzards, fires or other problems to overcome them as a family. But it 's not always that simple! Have you ever disagreed about a position you had with another person and you simply couldn’t figure out why he or she just could not agree with you? To you it seems so obvious and you know you are so right. “What is the matter with you? Why can 't you hear or see what I 'm saying?” I have been working on upgrading our ranch website and it 's beginning to feel like an exercise in futility! Nobody can seem to agree on what should be said or how to present it and others just don 't see a need for it at all or the importance of social media accounts because they don 't use the internet. It’s amazing just how divided everybody can be on certain issues when we 've spent years working together as a family. …show more content…
In every situation, we always have a choice, even if the only choice we have is to change our perspectives. This change of perspective didn 't happen overnight, as I have been known to have a self defeating stubborn streak. It took me some time, self reflection and a lot of gratitude to give up my smallness and narrowmindness that was making me
In reviewing the documentary Psychology: The Human Experience, Viktor Frankl’s “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” comes to mind. Even though our behaviors are being dictated by the environment we reside in, by being aware of our motivations and choices we make, there is a high chance that our attitudes towards one another might be a positive experience that can increase our quality of life for the individual, the society and the world we live in.
choose, the freedom to choose. We also have to take the responsibility of our choices. We
paradox, leaving no way of escaping from a dilemma. No matter what we do or say we
If this man wants to eat a cookie before dinner, he will eat the cookie simply because he chooses to. The cookie is irrelevant. He begins to form new values with his choice as the guiding force. No more blindly obeying codes previously laid down in the past, this man has see...
Everyday, humans are faced with moral or logical decisions constantly alter the universe that surrounds them. One can assume that these decisions are fabricated based on one’s knowledge or previous experiences, and not influenced by outside factors. However, independence is merely a social construct, designed to induce the feeling of supremacy over one’s actions. Similar to animals, humans live in a society where each member must fulfil a role in the community, follow a pre-established social protocol, and follow the “herd”. Any individual who deviates from the protocol, or disagrees with the general consensus, is shunned by the community and branded as an outcast. It is this common practice that influences one’s decision making process, wondering
accept the choices we make in life whether good or bad. The next possible interpretation
When I was little everyone told me I would make a great lawyer, they said I loved to argue. For a long time I believed them, I do love to argue. However, the older I got the more I realized that it wasn’t the arguing I loved, it was the dialog. How two people can have the exact same experience, but have two totally different views about that experience baffled me. When I was in high school I struggled with some things that I didn’t quite understand at the time. I didn’t understand why my teammates would listen to my male co-captain instead of me even when we said the exact same thing. I didn’t understand why my teammates would skip practice or do something that might get them kicked off of the team. We all loved water polo and had a great
The message conveyed in this book is that even when the odds are not in your favor you should do what you know is right and it may be tough but it’s worth it.
More often than not, a person will encounter themselves in a difficult and problematic situation. Life is not a walk in the park when it comes to making decisions. Making choices may not be feasible when under pressure and stress. Ideally, this applies to those choices that are not black and white. In relation, this is where a person's morality comes into play which reveals their
...s life was to teach us for not making compromises just in order to fit in. We as human are capable of making decisions for ourselves and whether that decision is good or bad that decision is still ours and we should be able to take responsibility of our decisions. We are constantly bombarded by ideas that try to make us something else, we need to take action against it and follow our heart.
that it is up to the individual person to make the right choice and to
to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying, said
'The choice between them depends not on which one is right, but what we wish to know'
One positive formative message I always got from my family is, “You’re the smart one out of the family.” When I was young, I always used to get good grades and receive academic awards. Whenever I would receive an award, my mom would always say, “Good job, I know, one day you’ll be someone great.” My dad also used to say, “One day you’ll become a nurse, doctor, or lawyer.” My siblings joined once in a while to by saying, “Here comes the smarty pants, or here comes Miss. Know
concentrates the reParents play the most important role in the development of children from his childhood to adolescence. The emotional relationship between the parents and adolescence shape their personality and also have strong impact on mental and physical development. Positive parenting like emotional warmth, involvement with the activities of the adolescents, and consistency have a strong impact on their development and growth (Karavasilis, Doyle, & Markiewicz, 2003). Children who remain under constant observation of their parents, and get warm and affectionate relation from them they have better relations with their peers, within their groups and with their teachers. They acquire skills through observation, training and education