The Choices You Make Do Matter

Every day you are faced with a myriad of choices. Some of them are seemingly small like what you want to eat for lunch; while others are more complicated, like who are you going to hire to replace your assistant. But the amazing thing about choices is that regardless of their apparent size, they all affect your life.

Your life today is the sum of the choices you have made up to this point. You may not think that your lunch menu is all that important in the scheme of things. However, depending on the status of your health, the choice of food you choose will play a minor or major role in your overall well-being. The same can be said for your decisions regarding financial issues, relationships and career moves.

Most of us make many of our choices out of habit. We very rarely stop to think about the consequences. We act out of habit and then wonder why we are gaining weight, or why our job is not really the dream job we thought it was, or how our finances got so out of control. We see the end results of unconscious choices, but we have a difficult time seeing the path that leads to that end result.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. You do have control over the choices you make. The tricky part is to make sure you know when you are actually making a choice versus just acting out of habit.

One way to practice bringing awareness to your choice-making process to pick 3 or 4 choices that you make every day. These choices could be around things such as eating, exercising, spending time with your kids, work situations, etc. As each choice arises during the day, ask yourself these two questions:

1. Am I making this choice because it truly feels right to me or because it’s something I think I should do and/or because it’s easy to do?

2. Is this choice going to move my life forward in a direction I want or is it going to keep me where I am?

Becoming more conscious in your choice-making process will help you make better choices for your well-being and will help you move your life closer to how you truly want to be living.

At every moment of our lives, we are choosing between safety and growth. Cheri Huber