Choice

Choice is a present moment event. If I don’t think I am choosing my way through the day I am mistaken. We choose all day long. Many of the choices I make are from habit so are not conscious choices. Hmmm? Sometimes a choice for one thing means a choice against another thing. Sometimes a choice brings with it another, like when I pick up one end of the stick, the other end comes with it; Covey (consequences). Oh oh

Ever see one of those movies with the alternate endings? At one point in the story a different choice is made and the whole ending changes. Life is like that, played out in continuous response to continuous choice. When someone is single-mindedly focused on getting a certain thing, they most often get it. Why? Because they choose their way toward it, increment by increment. What would you like to have?

Since we choose our way through our days, what does it mean when I am having a bad day? Do I simply need to choose to have a good day instead and presto I’m there? Wait a minute here. That means I can’t blame anyone for anything. But I’m used to spreading the blame around. Don’t you know what that *&%@ said/did? And then there is that Pollyanna we all know who, somehow, seems to be cheery most of the time. Grrr

Some choices are ‘if A, then not B’. Like when I choose about my time. They ain’t makin’ any more of that stuff, so when I choose A then B is not available at that time. Yet, if I delegate B to a trusted colleague, maybe both can be accommodated. There is only one of me and one of you, so if it is going to take both of us, then, if I really want what I say I want, then the choice is all or none. No pressure

Some are so happy and successful and float through life with a joyful grace. If they do that by the choices they make, how can I do the same? I say the entry to any better choice is to first notice my present choices. Notice how my thoughts affect my actions and the results that then flow. By choosing my thoughts I design my quality of life. I choose happy. What choice will you make today? What old choice will you toss?