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Show Hilltop COMMENTARY TIMES 2 October 30, 2014 Hilltop 7 ,7 T eekly Since 19M Learn to live by the 90/10 principle BY CHIEF MASTER SGT. ARVIE MCGINNIS Hilltop Times Managerial Staff: Andrea Mason Director, Team Hill Public Affairs 801-777-2286 Rich Essary Team Hill Public Affairs 801-777-2284 Barbara Fisher Team Hill Public Affairs 801-775-3652 Micah Garbarino ... Team Hill Public Affairs 801-777-1902 Deadlines: Editorial and news items are due by noon on the Friday prior to the Thursday print date. To submit news items, email 75abw.pa@us.af.mil or call the numbers above. For Classified Advertising, call 801-625-4300. For Retail Advertising, call 801-625-4388. The Hilltop Times is published by Ogden Publishing Corp., a private firm in no way connected with the U.S. Air Force, under, and in compliance with, a Memorandum of Understanding with Hill Air Force Base. 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Call 801-775-3652 with story ideas or comments, or email 75abw.pa@us.af.mil . Call 801-6254300 for Classified Advertising or 801-6254388 for Retail Advertising. Superintendent, 419th Mission Support Group A uthor Stephen Covey described a principle he called the 90/10 principle. Ten percent of life is made up of what happens to you. Ninety percent of life is decided by how you react. We really have no control over 10 percent of what happens to us. We cannot stop the car from breaking down and the plane will be late arriving, which throws our whole schedule off. A driver may cut us off in the traffic. We have no control over this 10 percent. The other 90 percent is different. You determine the other 90 percent. How? By your reaction. You cannot control a red light; however, you can control your reaction. Do not let people fool you. You can control how you react. Let me use an example: you are having breakfast with your family. Your daughter knocks over a cup of coffee onto your uniform shirt. You have no control over what has just happened. What happens next will be determined by how you react. You curse. You harshly scold your daughter for knocking the cup over, and she breaks down in tears. After scolding her, you turn to your wife and you criticize her for placing the cup too close to the edge of the table. A short verbal battle follows. You storm upstairs and change your shirt. Once back downstairs, you find your daughter has been too busy crying to finish her breakfast and get ready to go to school. She misses the bus. Your spouse must leave immediately for work. You rush to the car and drive your daughter to school. Because you're late, you drive 40 miles per hour in a 30 mph speed limit zone. You get pulled over and, after a 15-minute delay and throwing $60 away on a traffic fine, you arrive at school. Your daughter runs into the building without saying goodbye. After arriving at work 20 minutes late, you realize you forgot your backpack or briefcase. Your day has started terribly. As it continues, it seems to get worse and worse. You look forward to going home. HAWC Nest THINK SAFETY Hill's Total 2014 DUIs: 9 Hill's Last DUI: sue. 28 Unit Involved: 75e ;let &tee 'Weft, Airmen Against Drinking and Driving provide rides when designated drivers are unavailable. Call 801-777-1111 to request a ride anytime. Hours of operation: Fridays-Saturdays 10 p.m.- 6 a.m. Sundays 9 p.m.-midnight. really have no control over 10 percent of what happens in your life. The other 90 percent is determined by your reaction. Here are some ways to apply the 90/10 principle. If someone says something negative about you, do not be a sponge. Let the attack roll off like water on glass. You do not have to let the negative comments affect you. React properly and it will not ruin your day. A wrong reaction could result in losing a friend, being fired, being written up or getting stressed out. How do you react if someone cuts you off in the traffic? Do you lose your temper? Pound on the steering wheel? (a friend of mine once had the steering wheel fall off) Do you curse? Does your blood pressure skyrocket? Who cares if you arrive 10 seconds later at work? Why let the cars ruin your drive? Remember the 90/10 principle and don't worry about it. You are told you lost your job, did not get promoted, etc. Why lose sleep and get irritated? It will work out. Use your worrying energy and time to find a new job, study harder for a test or whatever the case might be. The plane is late. It is going to mangle your schedule for the day. Why take out your frustration on the flight attendant? She has no control over what is going on. Use your time to study, get to know the other passengers, why stress out? It will just make things worse. Now you know the 90/10 principle. Apply it and you will be amazed at the results. You will lose nothing if you try it. The 90/10 principle is incredible. Very few know and apply this principle. The result? You will see it yourself. Millions of people are suffering from undeserved stress, trials, problems and headaches. We all must understand and apply the 90/10 principle. It can change your life. Enjoy it! It only takes willpower to give ourselves permission to make the experience. Absolutely everything we do, give, say, or even think, is like a boomerang. It will come back to us. If we want to receive, we need to learn to give first. Remember, we cannot control everything that happens to us, but we can control how we react to it. Taking a stand: Help win the fight against sexual assault Fitness Tip from the Health and Wellness Center Studies have found that people who have smoked for years can dramatically reduce their risk of lung cancer and many other cancers by quitting. QUIT TODAY. For assistance call the HAWC at 801-777-1215. When you arrive home, you find a small wedge in your relationship with your wife and daughter, because of how you reacted earlier that morning. Why did you have a bad day? A) Did the coffee cause it? B) Did your daughter cause it? C) Did the policeman cause it? or D) Did you cause it? The answer is "D." You had no control over what happened with the coffee. How you reacted in those 5 seconds is what caused your bad day. Here is what could have happened. Coffee splashes over you, your daughter is about to cry. You gently say: "It's okay, honey, you just need to be more careful next time." Grabbing a towel you go upstairs and change your shirt. You grab your backpack or briefcase, and you come back down in time to look through the window and see your child getting on the bus. She turns and waves. You arrive 5 minutes early and cheerfully greet the staff. Notice the difference? Two different scenarios. Both started the same. Both ended differently. Why? Because of how you reacted. You By Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Larry 0. Spencer w ASHINGTON — Just as Airmen broke the sound barrier and pioneered new paths to space, Airmen will pioneer new ways to prevent sexual assault in the Air Force. Preventing this crime is not easy; if it were, you, America's Airmen, would already have eliminated it from our force. As we begin this new fiscal year, I ask for your help in pioneering new ways to prevent sexual assault in the force. To be clear, preventing sexual assault focuses on the individual that commits the crime and how to intervene before a crime takes place. Whether the campaign is called 'Inherent Resolve,' Airmen Powered by Innovation,' or 'Every Airman Counts,' your ideas are at the forefront of solving every challenge the Air Force faces, and eliminating sexual assault is no different. In the past several years, we have made great improvements in our sexual assault response programs. We added more sexual assault response coordinators and funded fulltime victim advocates at each installation. We stood up a special victims' capability that is comprised of specially trained investigators, prosecutors, and legal support personnel to appropriately prosecute these sex crimes. We also significantly increased our victim advocacy capability with special victim counselors that are available to all sexual assault victims and whose sole purpose is to represent the victim in any legal proceedings or assist in any other legal and policy matters a victim may need. We have also spent a great deal of time training and educating every Airman about sexual assault prevention and response. This education starts from the day an Airman walks into a recruiting office, and continues throughout their career. However, our job is far from done. While we've made progress in victim advocacy and appropriately holding offenders accountable, there is still significant work to do in preventing sexual assault before it happens. Together, we all need to get better at recognizing the characteristics of the perpetrator and the subtle situations in which we can stop harassment, assault and violence before it happens. This is where I need your help. Jan. 12 - 16, 2015, we are conducting a Sexual Assault Prevention Summit at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, and will bring in Airmen from See ASSAULT I Page 5 Report suspicious activity via the AFOSI EAGLE EYES program watch — Report — Protect Plat: 777-3056 / 3057/ 3058. Force Protection is Our Business — Everyone is a Sensor Security Forces 777-3056 Program 777-3056 Hill Straight Talk 24-hr, Crisis Information Force Support Squadron.......... ................... 777-4134 IG Complaints Base Restaurants 777-2043 (for appointment) RetirementlCompensation 777-6142 IG Complaints.. 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