…is the most powerful tool you have. Everything boils down to choice. You exist within ultimate possibilities.  Every choice you make shuts any given door or opens another.  At any given point you can change the direction of your life by a simple choice.  It is all in your hands, your heart, and your mind.  Even if you have been a victim of things out of your control, you have a choice as to how you recover from them.  Even when thoughts and feelings get in the way, you can choose how you react to them.  Even when the choices are hard, you can do hard things.  Even when you think things happen TO you, you can choose to believe things happen FOR you.

Some thoughts to help you make choices:

• Remind yourself of your priority, goal, and the future impact of the outcome while choosing or deciding things (and that you are your first priority)
• Don’t allow emotions to sway your decisions
• Trust the power of intuition when making decisions
• Consider all alternatives to make well-informed decisions

Recognizing that you always have the power to choose can be freeing.  It means you can decide where you want to go in life.  It means you can choose to do the work that matters to you – the world.  It means you can, through the choices you make, bring forth your incredible human potential.

You have the power to choose what to do next.  From something as simple as choosing what to eat for your next meal or what to wear for the day to the deepest, darkest moments – you can choose how you look at the situation and how to respond.  One of the greatest things about having the power to choose is that if you don’t like the place you are in life, you can change it. And that is a beautiful thing.

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