A light in the darkness

  This week I have talked to you about our basic needs (the L-factor), and then I talked to you about no shortcuts while discussing organizing the important over the urgent (quadrant II).  Now the question arises, how is this L-factor related to shortcuts, and what does this X-factor have to do with it? Isn't this rumbling in your head?  To help you understand this better, let me set up a quick scenario. Amit said, "You are a son of a bitch." Rehan slapped Amit. So, the above scene looks like this.  It seems that Amit provided the acting event or adversity (in other terms, provided the stimulus). Now this stimulus made Rehan angry, and he slapped (consequence, i.e., emotional and behavioral outcomes; response). It seems that there was a stimulus that made the consequence or response occur. Psychologist Albert Ellis simplified it more. He gave the ABC theory . In this theory A- Acting event or Adversity B- Belief (thoughts, interpretations, or self-talk) C- Consequen...