Making Choices and Decisions Is Always Eventful
It’s with choices and decisions that you get to drive your life.
If you live in the United States, last week you witnessed a rather impressive election. Why the outcome is what it is comes down to one thing: choices and decisions.
Specifically, people actively made choices and decisions to make their voices heard. They chose to go out and vote, then decided to vote for people who might govern them better.
It’s not perfect, as evidenced by the emerging arguments about who should lead the new Congress. But because people went out there, made these choices and decisions, we might effect some necessary change to the way things are being done.
This is, ultimately, a fine example of what you can do to impact the big picture. Some of the races were so close that every single vote truly counted.
If this can be so eventful to the big picture, can you imagine what it can do for you and your life experience?
Your choices and decisions carry weight
One of the main reasons for the ridiculous “anti-woke” narrative is disempowerment. By vilifying giving a shit about people other than yourself, DEI, and marginalized groups, this creates a false narrative that empowers nobody. Which is the point. Disempowerment causes people to turn without, not within.
The problem is that everything in life is an inside job. That’s because the only thing you and I really, truly, genuinely control is our inner mindset/headspace/psyche self. That’s achieved by applied mindfulness in the form of active conscious awareness.
In other words, being here now and using your conscious mind to make choices and decisions. Not dwelling on the past or fixated on the future. Here. Now. In the present. The one and only place where you can impact change.
How? By consciously making choices and decisions. Choosing and deciding things about your life and how you live it is wholly yours to control.
The thing is, the majority of the choices and decisions you make daily are often by rote and routine. Getting dressed, driving to work, sitting in front of your workspace, watching TV later – all of these tend to just be. Unless you actively, consciously pay attention to them and choose and decide differently.
When you do, that carries weight. And every little bit you assert control over strengthens your empowerment muscles.
The power you wield
You have a limited amount of control when it comes to this life. Other people, places, and things are not within it. Neither are the random happenings of life, the universe, and everything.
What do you control? Your inner being. Ergo, your mindset/headspace/psyche self. Gaining that control is a matter of pausing, reflecting, and questioning what you’re thinking, what and how you’re feeling, your current intentions, the positivity or negativity of your approach, and your actions.
It might not seem like much, but the truth is that it’s everything. Why? Because every single day you make new choices and decisions. Most are subconscious. However – and this is the coolest part about this – you can change that and make them consciously.
You are the only one in your head, heart, and soul. Ergo, you alone control how you think, feel, intend, approach life, and act. Nobody else can do that for you. Even when you allow others to influence or coerce you, you’re ultimately in charge of how you live your life.
This means you can make new choices and decisions to improve your mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical health, wellness, and wellbeing. Every time you do this, you make yourself more capable of choosing and deciding next time.
This is just like any other muscle in the body. The more you flex it, the stronger it becomes. Choosing and deciding, actively, consciously, right here and now, empowers you. When you’re empowered, you take the wheel of your life.
That’s good for the big picture, but your life isn’t the big picture. It’s the people you interact with, places you go, what you love, and the like in your corner of the world. These are all a part of who, what, where, how, and why you are.
You alone experience your life
Only you are in your head, heart, and soul. You, and only you, know what you like and love. Choices and decisions that you make mindfully are how you do what you can to make the most of this.
Yes, sometimes it’s not easy. Other times, the choices and decisions are suboptimal. But the more you exercise this, the more you be consciously aware and make them, the more you’re empowered. When you’re empowered, you ultimately drive your life.
We only get one shot at living this life. It’s going to be imperfect, but that’s how we learn, grow, and experience it fully. But most of all, you’re worthy and deserving of that. Be here, now, as often as you can; choose and decide mindfully, and watch how much more of your world becomes what you desire it to be.
Easy? No. Worthwhile? Yes. Nobody else is you, so don’t let them tell you who, what, where, how, and why you should be. Apply nontoxic positivity, take action, and make the choices and decisions you can to be your most genuine, authentic self.
Change yourself, change the world. That’s what empowerment is all about.
Mindfully making choices and decisions isn’t hard
It’s all about practicing active conscious awareness (mindfulness) of your thoughts, feelings, intentions, and the positivity or negativity of your approach to direct your actions.
Recognizing and acknowledging that you can choose and decide your thoughts, feelings, intentions, positivity or negativity of approach, and actions, you can work from there to take control of your life experience and who, what, where, how, and why you are. Knowing that only you are in your head, heart, and soul, and thus understand what makes you tick, you can be here now to make choices and decisions to change anything about your own life you desire to.
This empowers you. When you’re empowered, that can, in turn, empower others around you. That’s why I share these weekly posts with you.
Consciously choosing your approach to life towards positivity or negativity — from the vast cylinder that exists between them — shifts life in ways that open you to more potential, possibility, and the like. From there, you can recognize, explore, and share where you are between the extremes and how that impacts you in the here and now.
The more aware you are of yourself in the present, the better you can choose and decide what, how, and why your life experiences will be. When you empower yourself, it can spread to those around you and empower them, too. That is an amazing conduit to help reason overcome fear in the collective consciousness.
Thanks for joining me on this journey.
This is the six-hundred-sixty-fourth (664) entry of my Positivity series. I hope that these weekly messages might help spread positive energy for everyone. Feel free to share, reblog, and spread the positivity.
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