90/10 principle

90/10 principle

It means 10 % of life is made up of what happens to you; 90% of life is
decided by you how you react.

Example
You are eating breakfast with ur family
Your daughter knocks over a cup of coffee onto ur business shirt.
(You have no control over what has happened. What happens next will be
determined by how you react).
You harshly scold your daughter for knocking the cup over
She breaks down in tears.
After scolding her, you turn to your spouse and criticize her for placing
the cup too close to the edge of table.
A short verbal battle follows..
you storm upstairs and change ur shirt.
Back downstairs, you find daughter has been too busy crying to finish
breakfast and get ready for school.
She misses the bus.
You rush to the car and drive the daughter to school.Your daughter runs
into the building without saying goodbye.
After arriving late at the office, work seems to get worse and worse
You look forward to coming home. When you arrive home, you find a small
wedge in your relationship with your spouse and daughter. why ? Because of
the reaction that morning.

You had no control over what happened with the coffee. How you reacted in
those 5 seconds is what caused your bad day.

Apply the 90/10 principle. It will change your life, atleast the way you
react to situations.