Choose Better

It’s emotionally and mentally exhausting to keep repeating the same situation over and over again. Someone once said, “Lessons in life will be repeated until they are learned”. Ha! Where’s the lie? The anxiety, the disruption of our peace, the doubt, the fear…To some degree, they may be caused by the choices we’re making, if we’re keeping it real. You know that job doesn’t give you the work-life-balance you need, yet you tell yourself that it’s too much to look for another one at the moment. Rather than ask out the person who you know will challenge you, you take the easier route. Instead of eating a cookie once this week, you decide to eat one every night.

Choices…

A lot of things are under our control…

Although we can’t control everything that life throws our way, and sometimes circumstances can and will make it harder to choose better, we usually have the opportunity to make a choice at some point. It can be related to how we react, what option we go with the next time, or choosing to remove or add things to positively impact our environment.

But guess what? There’s another level to this…

Sometimes a good decision is the wrong decision. There are times when we’re presented with a good or an outstanding option—neither are bad. That’s when the real test begins. Do we choose the best or do we play it safe? The answer to that question isn’t always clear. There’s no manual that gives us the formulas to make every decision in our lives. We’re going to choose wrongly sometimes, but ohhh when we choose what’s best!

I think a great indicator of success is creating a pattern of making the best decisions. It won’t fix all of our problems, but it can create a mindset of resiliency, perseverance, and peace. Choosing the best for our lives is how we practice self-love.