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A New Perspective
Emilie Taylor, DTM - Immediate Past District Director
time mulling over certain decisions. I would some silly thing. If you were deputized, you
be satisfied to let them go. Decisions are made could write them a ticket. It really comes down
because of the need and circumstances. A to being in command of your reactions, self-
decision is never made in isolation. Self-judging talk, self-analysis, and self-opinion. Practice
as to whether decisions were bad or good is a taking command of your reactions. Make your
futile experiment in my opinion. Time and actions well intended instead of programed
distance make us second guess ourselves. Is that auto responses. See what a difference it makes.
helpful? I don’t think so. I will leave you with this wonderful quote
Are we able to see clearly or is our vision from the movie adaptation of The Curious Case
marred by how we feel? Perspectives change our of Benjamin Button: “It’s never too late to become
vision of interpreting what we see. who you want to be. I hope you live a life that
When you are driving your car, do you put you’re proud of. And if you find that you’re
your attention to what is going on behind you? not, I hope you have the strength to start over.”
Maybe at a stop light it is ok. Most of the time, it I hope you go and get a fresh perspective. . .
is better to have your attention focused on what Keep looking for a different angle, to see
is happening in front of you. If your attention yourself, your role, your activities from a fresh
is focused on what is going on behind you then perspective! See you next month with my new
you may lose your way or end up in the ditch or column Beyond Toastmasters. You will have
head on with a logging truck. You cannot control to wait and see what it’s all about.
what the driver does behind you, in front of you,
or on either side. You can control your reactions Back to you, fellow Toastmasters!
to your surroundings. You can control whether
you get upset if someone cuts you off or does
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