It's a matter of Choice
Written on 10:17 AM by Nice to meet you, I'm Chance :)
Today I want us to think about the word CHOICE.
What does choice mean to you? Is it the opportunity to choose what you eat for lunch, who your friends are, when you get up or how many glasses of wine you have?
Or maybe it means, freedom, happiness or success.
2009 is only a few mere hours away, and while many of us will drink, party with friends and share a New Year's Kiss with our loved one underneath a sky of glittering fireworks the Universe continues to work hard; letting go of the past 12 months and preparing for another 12 fresh canvas' for which we can each CHOOSE what we write on them, how we treat them and what we want from them in return.
If it's all sounding a bit esoteric, then make the CHOICE to look away, but if you've reached an epiphany, decided you deserve a better year or simply bright eyed and keen to step forth into 2009 then this post may be the ingredient you're looking for.
I have never experienced a year like I have this 2008, I lost one of the most irreplaceable people, someone dearly close to me to which every move I made was to hopefully make them proud of me. I think daily about them daily, yet it all still feels impeccably surreal. Mixed in with this equation was the love that grew my family and I, my partner and I and those friends that stood near. All this has brought me to a place where, little things don't trouble me anymore, I've learnt there is so many, many more important things that we glaze over everyday with little care for their beauty, the place of love they have come or even the opportunity they could be, should we CHOOSE to stop and see.
We all joke about what our New Year's Resolution is going to be, but how many of us, stop and think about how truly fortunate we are that we have the freedom to not only CHOOSE a Resolution, but the ability to CHOOSE to honour it or to not. This post may be a little heavy for some, but while it's not nice to think about we all truly do take life for granted and few of us truly do our opportunity at living a life justice. For most it comes down to the deep seeded psychology of not respecting ourselves. Learn to love yourself, appreciate yourself, be grateful for yourself and it will reflect in your life and all that crosses your path.
I'm going to give you an exercise, and I'll join in and do it also. From the moment you finish reading this post through to the same time tomorrow I want us to think to ourselves all the things we're grateful for; I'm grateful for my life, I'm grateful for my family, I'm grateful for my health, I'm grateful for the roof over my head, I'm grateful for my mom's brownies, I'm grateful for my new haircut... Just run through everything in your head, don't put clauses on things, I'm grateful for my family except my mother in law because.... just instead appreciate things for their essence, regardless of someone or something’s good or bad points in your mind, they're in your life for you to learn, grow and benefit from, don't ever discount a person or event. Consider practising the daily act of being grateful, just in your mind, and soon you'll start to mean it from you core and you'll begin to see a positive shift. Remember no one else knows you're doing it, just you, and that's all that matters, what's the harm in trying, hey?
So when it comes to CHOICE, you soon see that where we each find ourselves at this exact moment, is the result of alllllll the choices YOU have made which have got you here, like it or not, you chose to quit your job, you chose to dye your hair pink, you chose to eat all that takeaway, you chose to unconditionally love your partner, you chose to be grateful daily, you chose to smile at strangers you pass. Good or bad you chose it. Now CHOOSE to make not a Resolution for this New Year but a shift in consciousness that gets you to a better place, a happier place and one that will support, nurture and manifest your hopes, dreams and desires. Anything is only as possible as you CHOOSE it to be. Choose to aim for the moon, for even if you fall short, you will land among the stars.
Make a conscious CHOICE, you deserve happiness, you deserve success and you deserve to do what it takes to be grateful for all that can make this happen and begin to make smart decision today.
Your life, what you achieve, how you feel. It's simply a matter of Choice.
Goodbye 2008, I am grateful to have shared this year with you.
Kindest - Chance :)
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