Food for Thought_CHOICES ANYONE?
Often we talk about having two choices in life, this or that, staying or leaving, making a career or raising a family, accepting a job offer or remaining in the one we have, changing our lives or letting things slide as they are, and while making these choices, we naturally weigh the pros and cons, as we have been so well taught.
Coming from a scale of opposites. so strong is this conditioning that we sometimes, or rather often, forget that when faced with two options, more than a choice it tends to become a heavy-weight dilemma leading to endless brooding, frustration, and the very uncomfortable feeling of being stuck.
To actually have the power of choice, we must be able to consider a multitude of options, it could be a minimum of 3 or better a few more, moving on into a limitless combination of the first two perhaps.
Oftentimes it helps to get more perspectives than our own and be open to others’ points of view because they will always see things from angles completely different than our own. That openness helps us expand the gamut of choices available to us, and keeps us from getting stuck and tied down into tight, rigid boxed-in dilemmas.
Once we have been able to look at a multitude of options, we can go back to reviewing the original two perhaps, if required, only this time with a more flexible, enriched and expanded mindset which will help us make a more informed, conscious choice which is in keeping with what we want rather than a forced acceptance of either one or the other.
So, on your life’s journey, when you come to a major fork in the road, by all means, take your pick if you need to, but remember that even if seemingly there is no going back, you can always create your own Trails to take you where you want to go, instead of blindly following the paved road in front of you.
-Right now, in what areas of your life are you looking to make different choices, new choices, fresh inputs in your decision-making process?
-What choices and options are you currently reviewing in your own life?
-How can you expand your options and moving to creative ideas that will be more useful to you than pure pros and cons between two set paths that are almost always self-defined?