CHOICE is the most powerful tool we have.
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“Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
Viktor Frankl - Psychiatrist & Holocaust survivor
A general sense of well-being.
Equanimity.
Balance.
Positivity.
Self-management.
The ability to endure delay and disappointment without losing our peace.
An experienced sense of being part of something larger than ourselves that gives meaning and purpose to the moments and hours of our life.
These are choices. And these choices, choices about who we will be in any given circumstance, are the most powerful tool we have to create and to experience a life of hope and meaning and purpose.
Our lives are quite literally constructed by our choices, and yet we lose so much of our lives to reactivity, blame, and lack of awareness.
But we can choose differently.
We can choose response over reactivity.
We can choose acceptance over blame.
We can choose awareness over inattention.
Today, what tiny choices might we make?
Gratitude over complaint? Peace over antagonism? Purpose over reactivity? Hope over despair? Belonging and relationship over barriers and separation?
Not choices for ‘the rest of our lives’, but for this moment. Just this moment. Small steps. Small choices. Small changes.
The most powerful tool we have to create our lives, heal our lives, connect our lives, is choice - and a lifetime of small choices made in and for just this moment, made conscious and aware, is a life well-lived.
I wish for you all the goodness and blessings of the day,
Kate
