Habits - Take one deep breath

“What is the difference between being mission-driven and emotion-driven? One deep breath. We all have natural human emotions: anger, happiness, sadness etc. That’s normal. We don’t control feeling them. However, mentally and emotionally resilient people control how they react to them. They take one deep breath and think (‘think’ is the key word), ‘How do I best respond to this emotion so that it will help my team best accomplish its mission?’”

–Eric Kapitulik, author of “The Program: Lessons from Elite Military Units for Creating and Sustaining High Performance Leaders and Teams”