Self-Management Tools - Environmental Control

Everyone has the power to control the environment that they life and work in. By controlling one's environment, one can manage the known temptations and gateways to both success and failure. In almost any situation, controlling one's environment will lead to better outcomes"

Only let the good stuff in
Surround yourself with the people who are reinforcing to your aspirations and who are going you way in life
Surround yourself with people who will nurture your and add value to the skills needed to ensure your mutual successes
Use proven time management tools and methods.
Surround yourself with efficient tools that make work faster, better, and cheaper
Don't allow anything that is a know temptation or gateway to temptation to enter into your workspace.

Control is Overrated
As important as control is to achieving our goals and hence, perceived happiness, control is often overrated as the means of living the good life. Granted, life is better when you can control your destiny, but not everyone can control everything all the time in every circumstance. People who demand and strive for control are disappointed more frequently than those who do not.

The answer to life's problems is not more control. Since you cannot control everything, there will always be something you can't control. Our power extends to the point of our control. Some people have a longer control reach then others but everyone has limits to what they control.

Life gets interesting when you reach the end of your control. At this point, more control is not the solution. More control is not always the answer to our problems in life. So, what is better than control?

At the end of control, when we run our of our options to influence events, we have faith. We have faith in our own innate abilities, and we can have even more faith in the benevolent goodness of the higher powers that have more power than we do in guiding worldly events. We live balanced and joyful lives to the extent that we can rely on our faith to guide us when our control comes to a sharp end. Since faith is easier to come by than control, faith should be our first line of defense in coping in the world.

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