Choices That Shape Your Life

Wherever you are in life or business is a result of the choices you have made.
While there are outside forces that create setbacks, it is still your choice as to how you will respond to those incidents that determine whether or not you climb forward or fall behind.

The Choice to Grow

Growth is not automatic. You must choose to remain teachable, to work hard on yourself. When you choose not to grow, or have an attitude that you know everything, you become stale, arrogant and will plateau.

The Choice to Give

Giving your time, expertise and resources without expecting anything in return is an unselfish choice. The world needs more givers. Amazingly enough, when you focus more on the wants and needs of others more of your own wants and needs are met.

 The Choice to Listen

One of the best ways to build a connection with others is to listen to them. Take the focus off yourself and focus on the other person. This draws others to you because you place importance on others.

When you choose to do all the talking, you rarely build strong, or sustainable relationships. You are a turn-off and people will avoid you.

The Choice to Make a Difference

Making a difference by adding value to others is a choice. Similar to its cousin, giving, making a difference goes a step further by causing you to leave others and the world better than you found it. It goes beyond crossing the finish line by yourself and causes you to bring others across the line with you. On the other hand, when you choose to live in a selfish world, absorbed only with your own problems, after you die, it will be as though you never lived. You added value to nothing and impacted no one.

The Choice to Take Care of Your Health

It is said that your body is your temple, but many people treat it like an outhouse. On the way to get more and more, they sell out one key thing that money cannot buy: Physical well-being.

Make no mistake about it: Exercising or not, is a choice. Putting the donut in your mouth or not is a choice. The same going for smoking or drinking. The earlier life you decide to develop the discipline to live a healthy lifestyle, the better your health is in the long run.

Life is all about the choices you choose to make that shape who and what you are.