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"CHOICES"

claudia2
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For all us who have or have not been afflicted with some ill fortune or disease, or accident our choice usually determines our successes in life. Each new day presents added challenges, opportunities, and possibilities. It is up to us what selections we choose. It is up to us how intelligently we make our choices. I might also add, a decision not to act is as much of a choice as a deliberate decision to act.

We make choices constantly. They are our choices and we must own them. We choose our actions or our inactions, our beliefs and our non-beliefs. Just as we choose the clothes we wear and the books we read. There is an abundance of experience to draw from. Through time, our actions and beliefs move us in the direction we choose to go. Hopefully, growth occurs from consistently making the right choices and learning form the wrong choices.

The process of learning to make good decisions is the heart of growth. As we grow, life gives us new and exciting challenges to choose. If we fail, life will continue to give us more opportunities to achieve or fail. So ask yourself the right questions as you ponder your choices and you will choose the correct answers. As you go through life you will find that your choices have a definitive impact upon you, so you will need to make them carefully.

Your very being is determined by your choices.
17 Comments
barbara42
Member
if we had only made smarter choices when we were younger, we may not have had to pay for the bad ones now, so we need to make sure, like you say, to choose wisely now. so true, great blog peace!
denise6
Member
I think I have made plenty of bad choices in life some because I was reckless, and some because I saw a lot of that growing up. I have definitely created some of my own problems. While I regret soooo many of them, I have also learned from each and every one of them. I know my page says, here's to the future, I'm done with the past, but that stupid past still comes back to haunt me sometimes.

I wish I could say I will not make any more, but I am sure I will. I do think about things more before making a choice now. That is a step in the right direction. Oh yeah, and I QUIT SMOKING!!!
karen44
Member
Wow..Very inspiring blog! Thank you Claudia for posting it. I was always told that

Sometimes making no decision at all is the best decision...think before you act or react

Dale just so you know
karen44
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Giulia
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GREAT POST, THIS!
claudia2
Member

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DALE, JUST SO YOU KNOW!!!!!
a.d.
Member
I have choices today!
JonesCarpeDiem
I like cutting things off myself, especially extremities.

First it was my left thumb, then my right foot.

I am an equal opportunity, severer.

Those were not choices but quitting smoking was.


dale
claudia2
Member
You got it Peggy. I love how you say that we are where we are because of the choices we have made. Ans we will be tomorrow where our choices take us. So very true my friend. Keep saving lives!!!
grace3
Member
Great post....really hits home. If you have made a bad choices in the past put in behind you and focus your choices in a new direction. You can't do anything about the past but you can make a choice to do something better for your future.
linda8
Member
I love this post. I also love all that everyone has said here. Our mistakes are the journey we must make to become who we are today and who we will become tomorrow. I of course have made many mistakes and poor decisions in my life, but without them where would I be and who would be here with me. Of course I am referring to my 2 grown children that are the best things I ever did. Thanks for making me think about life tonight. Of course we have all made a great decision to be on here and quit smoking. So congrats to all of us!!!!!
claudia2
Member
Oh, yeah, Quitting smoking was a very good choice!! Denise, Just stiff that past away, there is not a darn thing you can do about it. Live for today and tomorrow.
sandi8
Member
I have made bad choices in my life but i can't regret them. If i did, thats means i regret my son which i could never do Now do i regret starting smoking that still is a question i met some nice people having to stand outside and smoke. and i am still friends with them today. So the choices i have made are good and bad but it has made me a stronger more outgoing person i used to be shy yes belive it or not. So just learn from the choices don't regret them because that is your life and you can't regret your life you gotta live it
ctm
Member
Great post Claudia!!! Thanks for sharing 🙂
cindywilson
Member
this is perfect Claudia, because for me the last few weeks I have thought so much about choices, but realized long ago I could not change what had already been, but often others would not let me forget what was. That can be hard sometimes as you struggle to do what you feel is right in your heart and enjoy the life that you have today, despite the stupidity or perhaps because of the stupidity of your past...
Sandra3
Member
Funny how this blog is here today. I was just having a very lonely sad moment and thinking that I am where I am today because of the choices I made in my past and wondering if they were the right choices for me. I guess we never really know for sure do we? Thanks for posting this.
claudia2
Member
Cindy, Please don't ever let others give you a hard time about your past. You are the one that has to live with it, made those choices and are making better choices today.
Do what you feel is right in your heart and enjoy the life you have today...forget about the yesterdays, we can not change them, and I am certainly sure you are not the only one that has made a stupid choice in your past...it is gone. Live for today!!! That is what we have.