What do you bring to the problem, the project, the interaction, the challenge?

Is it curiosity? Kindness? Humor? Resentment? Anger? Judgement? Patience?

Because the situation does not generate these things. We do.

In the moment, we might not realize it, but we’re the governor of the experience. When we’re frustrated about a thing, the source of the frustration is us, not the thing. When we find joy in an event, the source of the joy is us, not the event.

Our experience of a situation is because of what we bring to it.

It serves us well to be intentional about what we bring.