I’m a pretty good kisser. But when I’m yelling and screaming at my girlfriend she probably forgets all that. How I “react” is my life. She doesn’t know if she can really “trust” me until she sees how I react under pressure, when I’m angry. Then the story she tells her girlfriends is complete: he’s a good kisser, but, shit, what’s with this “reacting with anger” bullshit?!?

How I “react” IS my life!

Title: “One Smile Per Argument”
Contest level: Area
Club: Capital City Toastmasters #142, Sacramento, CA – District 39, Area 51
Contest location: Sutter Cancer Center, Sacramento, CA
Date: Mar 24, 2011

FUCKKKKKKKKKK LOVE <- NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I saw the above post on Facebook today. I’ve had that same reaction to love – a long time ago. I also know that when I’ve reacted like the above comment it was because I was emotionally immature. IQ is great, and EQ (emotional intelligence) is there to balance it out.

When someone screams that they’re angry at love, they also mean they’re angry about being *controlled* by love! They feel stupid, embarrassed, tricked, victimized! I’ve totally felt that way about love, too.

How you react IS your life! And right now, the above commenter’s reaction is to hate their life!

Life Coach Reid Walley – Toastmasters Speech 8 – How You React IS Your Life from Reid Walley on Vimeo.

Title: “How You React IS Your Life!”
Date: May 24, 2010
Toastmasters speech number: 8
Toastmasters manual: Competent Communicator
Time limit: 5-7 minutes
Official time: 7:53 (this is over the 7:30 maximum allowed)
Evaluator: Kevin Hrim
Toastmaster: Ceci Dunn
Club: Capital City Toastmasters #142
Location: Sacramento, CA

How you react IS your life!
Every one of your reactions leads to a new life.

You are what you think about all day long.
You are who you hang around.
And what you think about and who you hang around magnify each other.

How You React IS Your Life

Life Coaching: There is a Zen approach to our inner War. A Zen War! Winning without harming, without fighting.

It is The Secret of Frustration™ – the secret that How You React IS Your Life™. Frustration holds truths about who you are, who you were, who you can be. How you react IS your life. How you react IS your happiness, your success, your health, your family, your marriage, your children, your job, your legacy.

Frustration simply reveals… “buried treasure” or “wrong path.” Frustration reveals that you’re either right on top of your treasure – so keep digging; or you’re way off base – so pick a new path.

Frustration, and how you react to it, is life-expandingly powerful.