Tag: choice

Making choices

Every decision you make is a choice. Are you choosing to do something that will make you better? For example, did you choose to hit the snooze button this morning or did you wake up when you said you would work out? Did you choose to eat a salad for lunch instead of fast food? Did you choose not to go to the store last week which is why you don’t have healthy food options in your house? Did you choose to have one or two extra alcoholic beverages last night? Did you choose to read anything today?

People complain about how busy they are, but busyness is a choice too. Are you choosing to be busy or are you choosing to be productive?

Make a choice right now. You don’t have to stress about being perfect all day. Just start with your next decision.

Perception, reactions, and our reality

“Reality is neutral. Our reactions reflect back and create our world. Judge, and feel separate and lonely. Anger, and lose peace of mind. Cling, and live in anxiety. Fantasize, and miss the present. Desire, and suffer until you have it. Heaven and hell are right here, right now.” – Naval Ravikandt

Change your perception, change what you focus on, and that becomes your reality. Be happy with what you have, but hungry for improvement. Not having many “needs” is an easy way to be content with what you have. Being inspired, dreaming, and wanting to reach your full potential is an easy way to continue to want progress.

Power, choice, and feelings

Don’t let others’ words control how you feel or react. ​
Don’t let others’ words control how you feel or react.

I saw this quote on LinkedIn and decided that I wanted to talk about it a little more. I completely agree with this sentiment…

If you allow other people’s words or actions determine if you are happy, sad, mad, or anything in between, you’re in for a roller coaster of emotions in life. You can’t control what they say or do, and if you react to everything, you’re giving them the power to “make” you feel a certain way.

But the truth is, only you get to decide whether or not you feel happy or not. Keep that power for yourself – do not give it away to others who may or may not be thinking about how their actions might affect you physically or psychologically.

Practice what Viktor Frankl (Holocaust survivor, neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, and author) called SPR – Stimulus, Pause, Response. He said, “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.” Be free. Choose to be happy or choose to be mad. But make sure it is you who is making that choice, and not someone else choosing for you.

Everything is difficult. Choose your path.

Everything in life is difficult in its own way.

If you’re broke and hate your job, that’s difficult. But it’s also difficult to be successful professionally. It will take a lot of hard work, long hours, and sacrifices to get what you want. And along the way, you have to choose how hard you want to work at the other areas of your life.

If you put all of your energy into your work, but no energy into eating right or working out, your health will suffer.

If you don’t pay attention to your dating life, family time, or hanging out with friends, your relationships will suffer.

Sure, it’s easier to be mediocre at everything or to “not care” and be bad at certain things, but those choices bring different kinds of hardship with them.

You get to choose your actions. And by doing that, you get to choose which difficulties you’re going to experience. Choose wisely.