This, in turn, assists in shaping what is truly important to what is merely nonsensical. Having an empathetic mindset adds clarity and purity as opposed to being caught up in a selfish tunnel of me and more me.

Certainly, we are all going to have our transgressions, but this approach will limit them and yield more piece of mind, that your intentions towards others are not to be harmful, but harmless.

Without a doubt, you will always encounter people who simply do not care about your feelings, only their own. Don’t let these people derail your good intentions.

Try to always stay in this mindset. It will surely be critical to your mental health. I know this may sound like some sermon, but think of alternative mindset and negativity attached to it.

Of course it’s difficult to respect anyone who blatantly disrespects you, but this doesn’t mean you should approach life so negatively.

By sending a message to others that you respect them as a human being and not some tangible object standing before them, you naturally disarm their defenses, and begin speaking to most real part of them.

Wanting to have a good heart and treating people with dignity is something we should all strive for on a consistent basis.

If this uptempo world is to progress, we all need to do our part by approaching it empathetically and continue to form our values in accordance to this mindset.

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In this instance, logical thinking must be implemented in order to understand that aspects of dysfunction are infiltrating now, and have in past. Well, you might think one person’s trash could be considered another’s treasure, so how would a certain aspect of one’s life be blanketed as dysfunctional?

Logic!

If a person enables dysfunctional behavior, then people they enable will eventually catch on to this and know that you will always permit it, so cycle continues.

Using your God-given logic will always assist you in diagnosing a scenario that is littered with dysfunction, or one that has potential to bring it into your life.

If you are a person who thinks more with their heart than their head, this needs to change immediately! Many of times we are hurt by thinking with our heart, and in turn consequences can be quite costly.

Taking control of how much negative comes into your life is basis for this article. I want reader to understand that they do have power to not only make changes, however painful they might be, but dam up flow that a river of illogic and dysfunction causes.

By recognizing dysfunction, you limit its growth at its root and logically understand its negative characteristics. This gives you more than enough ammunition to stave off its constant barrage. So start to control damage dysfunction brings today rather than settling for a more inferior quality of life.

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