Groundhog day is the story of how cynical and bitter weatherman, Phil Connors finds himself repeating the same day over and over again, trapped by heavy snows, in the small town of Punxsutawney. 

Connors comes to realise that this apparent curse enables him to choose an infinite number of responses to the people he meets. He discovers that even the smallest acts of kindness can have the most profound effect on those around him. 



For me, his decision to cast off his multiple layers of cynicism and disdain to consciously choose how he responds to people has echoes of the words of holocaust survivior Victor Frankl. 

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” 

We can’t all be Victor Frankl who not only survived Auschwitz but went on to chronicle his experiences there in his celebrated work ‘Man’s search for Meaning’, but we can all be Phil Connors. 

Identifying the space between stimulus and response and using it requires forming habits. It will also require you to examine and become familiar with person that other people see you as. It also means keeping what you want from every encounter uppermost in your mind. This is what we're going to look at.

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