The Challenge Of Choice

We are given many opportunities to challenge ourselves…our beliefs, our behaviours, our thinking and our perceptions.

It’s only by accepting those challenges that can hope to gain the information we need to make the changes necessary for our growth and development.

The trap is that acceptance is not mandatory. We all have a choice. We can reply and act in the positive or we can opt for refusal and inaction.

There is always room for improvement. We can choose to be a better version of ourselves today than we were yesterday. In fact that is a noble aim. Incremental change is the most sustainable and, in so being, is quite probably the most desirable.

We can accept and excuse our flaws and our shortcomings or we can do something about them.

Guidance and direction can be sourced from the people and circumstances around us. But change is entirely our own responsibility. The heavy lifting is ours and ours alone.

Often we are well aware of what needs to be done and what must be done but fear and uncertainty holds us back. The risk there is that we can become locked in a state of emotional and spiritual suspended animation. We stall and, eventually, we stop.

The fact remains that, as individuals, we are stronger, deeper and more reliable than we give ourselves credit for being. We are often afraid to back our own individuality…to acknowledge that we know ourselves better than anyone else knows us.

That fear stands between who we are and who we want to be; where we are and where we want to be.

What should be self-reliance and self-promotion becomes self-restriction. In seeking to protect ourselves we deny ourselves.

Choice and change are always possible. The desire for both is the first step.