It’s Your Choice

We always have a choice in how we view things. Have you ever looked at a situation and thought, “I wish I could do (activity), but my job is too demanding”. Or, “I wish I could (activity), but it’s out of my control”.  Maybe you think you don’t have the time. Circumstances can become easy excuses for not living the fullest, most rewarding life possible.

Each day, we wake up with a clean new slate and decisions to make. In recent months, most of us have felt the strain and drain of a world that can feel very daunting. When that happened, it was the easier choice for many to press pause on the decision-making and just coast enough to get through the day. I get it. It’s a natural response.

However, the “ship” that is the state of the world is not turning around anytime soon so the time to start getting up every day and making good, strong, positive choices that lead to a healthier, happier, more purpose-driven life is now.

While we can’t choose everything that happens in our life, how we choose to see and react to it all is a difference-maker. To quote Randy Pausch from The Last Lecture, “You can’t change the cards you’re dealt with, but you can change how you play them.”

Pick an aspect of your life that you feel you can improve your choices, attitude, and actions. Make this the week you start fueling more joy, more health, and more wealth. Are you ready?

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.  - Stephen Covey

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. -Tony Robbins

Choices are the hinges of destiny. - Edwin Markham

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross



Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you. - John C. Maxwell