The Power To Choose
In today's global, social, and economic climate, we are bombarded with thousands of options. How should we discipline our children? What religion is right for us? Are we going to work for someone else or become an entrepreneur? Many of our choices are made subconsciously with little thought and some of our choices come from hours of contemplation and reflection.
We have all made decisions that affect our lives. Ponder this for a moment, every choice you make affects your life and the lives of those closest to you! For example; many of us work well over 40 hours a week, this is a choice that affects us on an individual level and this also affects our friends and family. This is a choice that we easily rationalize by saying that we need to buy food, pay our rent/mortgage, and support our families. All of these excuses are good reasons and I certainly believe them to be true. But, it has probably been a dog's age since you last considered the down side of spending so much time at work.
Our children are falling woefully behind at school, they tend to suffer from low self-esteem (eating disorders, becoming bullies, or being bullied), our children and peers are being diagnosed and medicated at an alarming rate, and let us not speak of the ever increasing prison population. These things are evidence of a overwhelmed and over worked society.
The power to choose can off set these social ills. We can choose to reduce our hours at work, we can choose to spend more time with our children, we can become political and help our fellow man, but we do not choose to do so because we need to provide for ourselves and our families.
You can choose to spend more time with your children! You can choose to spend more time with your spouse and loved ones, You can choose to take your life back. We all have difficult choices to make. Choose yourself, choose your family, choose to be a good citizen,and choose to work for yourself. Be the master of your own time and finances. The world needs you to succeed, through the power to choose we can have everything we desire.
We have all made decisions that affect our lives. Ponder this for a moment, every choice you make affects your life and the lives of those closest to you! For example; many of us work well over 40 hours a week, this is a choice that affects us on an individual level and this also affects our friends and family. This is a choice that we easily rationalize by saying that we need to buy food, pay our rent/mortgage, and support our families. All of these excuses are good reasons and I certainly believe them to be true. But, it has probably been a dog's age since you last considered the down side of spending so much time at work.
Our children are falling woefully behind at school, they tend to suffer from low self-esteem (eating disorders, becoming bullies, or being bullied), our children and peers are being diagnosed and medicated at an alarming rate, and let us not speak of the ever increasing prison population. These things are evidence of a overwhelmed and over worked society.
The power to choose can off set these social ills. We can choose to reduce our hours at work, we can choose to spend more time with our children, we can become political and help our fellow man, but we do not choose to do so because we need to provide for ourselves and our families.
You can choose to spend more time with your children! You can choose to spend more time with your spouse and loved ones, You can choose to take your life back. We all have difficult choices to make. Choose yourself, choose your family, choose to be a good citizen,and choose to work for yourself. Be the master of your own time and finances. The world needs you to succeed, through the power to choose we can have everything we desire.
posted by wealthy-bastard at 9:16 PM
2 Comments:
Remembering that we have a choice in all things we do and experience is indeed very powerful. Not only choosing what we do, but how we react to things can make a huge difference in our lives. You can choose success or you can choose failure. You can choose to be angry or you can choose to be peaceful. You can like something or you can dislike it, agree with it or disagree with it. Knowing that we have choices in all things puts the responsibility for what we feel within ourselves. When we know that we are responsible, we create inner peace.
Liane Bate
http://www.HonestMoneyMaking.com
http://www.HonestMoneyMaking.com/blog/
Great article. You're right, we do have choices. I chose to give up my full time, well paid job to become a full time mum (which I am thoroughly enjoying), and then chose to give up my (me time) to embark on a whole new career in internet marketing. Ok, I'm not making millions yet but I'm enjoying every minute of it.
http://www.quitthat9to5.com
http://www.quitthat9to5.com/blog
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