Thoughts On Choices
A few years ago I wrote this for a family member going through a rough patch… I still stand behind these thoughts.
Thoughts On Choices:
1.) Remember to have faith in your choices.
2.) If you trust yourself to make good choices because you’ve thought about them and you’ve listened to your intuition then you have no reason not to have faith in them.
3.) Enjoy your choices because you can never know for sure, or control, their outcomes.
4.) When you are faced with the outcomes of your choices whether they are good or bad, (even though you made them based on your faith in a positive outcome) you still have control over your life, because you are faced with new choices in response to your original choices’ outcomes.
5.) In other words, 90% of life is your choices, 10% is the outcomes. The outcomes are just as important as the choices, but in the end the only thing you have control over is your choices.
6.) If you make a mistake or something bad happens to you, you can dwell on it or choose to move forward and make your situation better.
7.) The better you can get at turning negative things into new starting points and seeing them as positives the faster all of your choices will become positives for your life.
8.) However, sometimes you need to let negative things be negative, and feel the shit of it for a bit, it helps you understand when things are good, and in a way, it makes them better.
9.) Freedom through decisions - Once you make a choice all that remains is the outcome and you get to find out what happens. You don’t have to think about the outcomes anymore so you have the freedom to choose again.
10.) Take responsibility for your choices and actions.
11.) Finally, sometimes you shouldn’t think so hard about your choices, make random decisions.
