CHIOICES

The Choices We Make . . . . . . .

The alarm went off. Should I get up, or hit the snooze?

Should I take a shower, brush my teeth, stretch, exercise, eat breakfast?

If I eat breakfast what should I eat? Cereal, eggs or maybe I should go out?

Should I read the paper, watch the news, check my email…?

What should I wear?

Open the closet and there are so many choices---the blue shirt, the white shirt?

Finally I am ready to go to work; or maybe I should call in sick?

Ok, I know I have to go to work. So should I take the same route, or try a new one?

Wow, it has not even been an hour since I woke up and I have had endless choices.  That is what life is, endless choices.  Every moment of every day we have choices, we just don’t stop to think of it that way. The truth is that the number of choices we have are infinite. 

Have you ever stopped to think about how the choices we make in our lives can change our lives forever. So many times the choices we make are irreversible. With just one simple choice you can change the direction that your life is headed.

                                                    

Everyone is at a crossroads each moment of each day – it’s just that we never stop to reflect on the fact that each minute decision we make can have life changing consequences. Little choices we make thoughtlessly, mindlessly, change the very course of our life.

Sure, it is true that we don’t always have a choice of what happens, we cannot choose the weather or every other event.  However no matter what is happening we can choose what we do.

Two things to remember life is never perfect and road we take can become bumpy and painful because of the choices we make along the way. Yes, there may be times we make choices that cause our path to become bumpy, confusing and uncertain. It’s the choice we make that shapes our life even when life brings us the unexpected or unpleasant.

All the choices that we make will not always be good, but hopefully we will learn something from those bad choices that we make on life's journey. Sometimes we make good choices and sometimes we make bad choices. Usually the bad choices were made before we thought about the repercussions of those choices.

Never mind the actions we can take, the attitude while we are doing anything has a huge range of choices. We can choose to be mad, rude, obnoxious, kind, enthusiastic, negative, positive, friendly, mean and more. 

Our attitude will be one of the most important factors in the results in our life choices.