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Episode 251: Wisdom and Choice
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Today, I am going to be talking about wisdom and choice.
A quote from William Jennings Bryan.
"Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for. It is a thing to be achieved."
In life, we always have a choice, even when we don't feel we do.
When I forget that I have a choice, what happens is that I am making myself a victim to life's circumstances, or to even life itself.
Choice is the freedom to see things as we desire, feel what we want, and live as we create our lives to be.
So, the question is, are you happening to life or is life happening to you?
Now, I firmly believe that I am the copilot in my life. But the chief pilot in my life is the universe.
And I choose for it to be that way because the universe is infinite, whereas me, just of myself, am finite.
In each moment, I can choose how I want to experience life.
I can choose how I want to experience life, and I always want to be reminding others to do the same.
Another way to think of this in terms of choice is when you choose consciously, you are at the cause of your life. And consequently, when you choose unconsciously, you are at the effect of your life.
Jen Sincero from the Badass Books, she talks about the big snore, which is how so many of us are just going through our lives sleeping.
We're not as I like to call it, using our minds to govern our brains to make sure that we are making the wisest and the most conscious choices in our life each day so that we can create the best future for ourselves.
Victor Frankel, a survivor from the Holocaust, talks about in his book how, yes, he was a prisoner. But he still had freedom, the freedom within his head, and that's how he stayed alive.
By choosing to choose, to open yourself up, you are moving, even just in making that choice, you are moving from catabolic energy, that energy that eats away at you, that is almost decomposes you, as opposed to moving into that anabolic energy, which is that energy of Expansion.
And again, reminding you that the universe wants you to expand.
The universe wants you to achieve. Why? Because as you get bigger, it gets bigger.
You are a part of it. It is a part of you. So again, by choosing to choose, to make conscious choice, you open yourself up to moving from catabolic energies to anabolic energies.
Now I'm going move into wisdom and the concept that each of us is greater and wiser than we appear.
A quote from Bruce D. Schneider, who is the founding of IPEC coaching.
He says, "Look past your reflection in the mirror and see the truth. I am always, and in all ways, greater than I think I am."
So, what if you are only operating at 40 percent of your potential and your capacity? I think a lot of people feel that. They might even feel less than that.
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