Choices, we make them all day every day. And the choices we make determine what happens next. Our present is a result of choices we've made before this moment. Think about it.
This morning you chose to get out of bed. You may not have wanted to get out of bed, but you chose to because doing so would bring you closer to something you want or would help you avoid negative consequences. It is this that makes every behavior a choice.
Making a decision is often so natural, habitual, or subtle that we think we didn't even make the decision. But when you come right down to it, every behavior is a choice. And each choice creates what happens in our life. We either move toward our goals or or away from them.
When I worked as a counselor with prison inmates they had trouble with the idea that they chose to be in prison. But even if they weren't guilty of the crime they were convicted for, their lifestyle, the people in their lives, their financial status, everything was a result of a string of choices that ended up with them being in prison. And how they dealt with incarceration was also a choice, their personal power.
So it is with all of us. Thankfully, we can make different choices and get right back on track. Like driving in the city, you make a wrong turn and just have to go around the block to get back toward your destination.
What destination do you want? Are your choices moving you toward it or away from it?
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