Choice

One of the most life-changing decisions is to
acknowledge the power to make decisions.

Most people bumble through life because they have to do this, because they're obligated to do that, because so and so will be mad if this happens. Going to work is a chore to be accomplished not a choice to embrace. Some say, "I hate my job!" Every day, though, that person chooses to get out of bed and go to work as if some ghost holds a gun to his temple forcing him to earn his living.

What is so scary about admitting free will/choice? Well, if one action is being taken by choice that means another action could be chosen too.

In our culture, it is very popular to be a victim. In fact, victims get lots of press as do the predators who victimize them. It is as if all people fall neatly into these two categories.

But that view is far from the truth. The vast majority of people make courageous and cowardly choices depending on their strengths and weaknesses. This lands them somewhere on the good-bad spectrum which results in the "nobody's perfect" scale.

And while nobody IS perfect, everyone can choose and choose again and choose differently. Another way to say it: Everyone is Response-Able or Everyone is Able to Respond.

When you get to the end of the day, do you feel tired, worn out and miserable? Another day wasted fufilling obligations and nothing I wanted to do? Have you considered that everything you did that day was what you wanted to do otherwise you would have done something different?

Taking ownership of your Free Will and Power to Choose will liberate you in ways you never imagined. You are in charge! You are in control! You can make it different!

Don't do what you've always done, just 'cuz you always did. At least look at what you've always done and decide consciously: is this what I want to do? Or do I want to choose differently?

One of my favorite scriptures says, "I set before you life and death. Choose you, therefore, life."

Today instead of running from decision or wallowing in indecision or regretting a past decision or hiding behind someone else's decision or pretending like you're not making a decision, why not embrace your choices?

Choose. You have more power than you ever imagined. Maybe that's what scares you.