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When we take action, there are consequences. Things happen and ripple out to impact many seen and unseen events. These may be positive or negative results for us, and positive or | When we take action, there are consequences. Things happen and ripple out to impact many seen and unseen events. These may be positive or negative results for us, and positive or negative results for other people. While we often focus on how things are impacting ourselves, the effects upon others can also be significant. Other people we usually consider in our decisions may include our family members and closer friends. We may also consider consequences for other people, even those we do not know directly. | ||
Think about the consequences of the action or decision that you are being faced with. Think about the positive or negative effects that may be created as a result of the action you take. How will you or others benefit? How will you or others suffer harm or negativity? | Think about the consequences of the action or decision that you are being faced with. Think about the positive or negative effects that may be created as a result of the action you take. How will you or others benefit? How will you or others suffer harm or negativity? | ||
Consequences of actions can have deliberate effects and they may be accidental, with short term or effects that happen later on. We often pay closer attention to consequences that happen in the shorter term, where there is clear cause and effect between the actions we make and what happens as a result of those actions. Consequences may also happen further out into the future, and perhaps it may be harder to track the causal relationship to the original action that set the consequence into motion. When consequences are less clear and more distant then we may ignore or downplay them, which | Consequences of actions can have deliberate effects and they may be accidental, with short term impact or effects that happen later on. We often pay closer attention to consequences that happen in the shorter term, where there is clear cause and effect between the actions we make and what happens as a result of those actions. Consequences may also happen further out into the future, and perhaps it may be harder to track the causal relationship to the original action that set the consequence into motion to effect the future. When consequences are less clear and more distant then we may ignore or downplay them, which does not generate positive effects.<ref>[http://changingminds.org/explanations/decision/what_happen.htm Changing Minds]</ref><ref>[Ascension Q & A Sept. 2017]</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||