The Control Freak....

Greetings, I just had to share a book I am reading. The Control Freak by Les Parrot,III. I knew I had these tendencies but wow, when you can say yes to 9 out of 10 questions and the answer section says if you answer 5 or more with a yes you are this, it is an eye opener to how I take control and try to fit everyone around me into a certain box and when they go out of it I don't take it well and have to regroup and figure a new strategy to get them back in their box. My oldest read the book too and decided we all must have these characteristics sometimes or we wouldn't be able to get anything done. Mostly I need to stop making those around me feel like they can't ever measure up. I am quick to share when something is being done the "wrong" way. I know it has a lot to do with organizing a household of this size and getting it all done. The other big characteristic that is me is making goals that are pretty hard to accomplish. Then, I get down on myself when I can't make it. A quote: The soul of control is fueled by anxiety and nurtured by feelings of extreme vulnerability and a fragile self confidence. This book has made me much more aware of everything thing that comes out of my mouth and how it sounds. Also everything that comes out of my children's mouths that sounds just like it came out of mine. That's eating humble pie, I tell you.

How about some more teachable quotes:
Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered on anything short of God. Billy Graham

And which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? Luke 12:25

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. Oscar Wilde

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Mother Teresa

Control Freaks are people who care more than you do about something and won't stop at being pushy to get their way. Les Parrot

"Kindly let me help you or you will drown." said the monkey, putting the fish safely up in the tree. Alan Watts

Please know if you have a control freak in your life they are probably not meaning to be that way. Circumstances may have brought them to this place. Just get them this book and pray they see themselves and not you in it!! (big smile)