I often say it is better to respond than to react, reactions are off the cuff, in the moment, highly emotional, but seldom calculated.
While responses do contain emotion one is off the cuff and the other calculated; one allows the situation to have control, the other hands control over to the individual and gives them the opportunity to meet the situation as it is.

It is hard as emotions are so volatile at times, extremely powerful, but if we let them control us then we have lost ourselves as well as the ability to utilize emotion as the tools they are meant to be.

I really look forward to your post on tools to help build confidence as I am gaining quite a bit of value from the few posts of yours that I have read since signing on to Steemit.

Thank you.