Choices
The Choice...
You awaken and immediately decide
it's going to be a great day or
you decide that it's not.
You drive to work and the car next to you
suddenly cuts you off,
you can choose to immediately respond with
understanding or with anger.
You get to work and your boss tells you about a
change in operations that will happen next week.
You can choose to be excited about the
opportunity or fearful of the change.
Later in the day, you are asked to lunch by a
couple of new guys from another department. You
can decide to make new friends and go or be
small and kindly decline.
Before you leave for the day,
you receive an email about giving to an annual
charity campaign.
You can choose to give freely or hold on tightly.
When you get home, your toddler asks you to play
'batman and monsters.'
You can make the choice to join in the fun or
refuse.
At dinner, the dog jumps on your lap again, who
let the dog in anyway?
You can choose to be patient and calmly let the
dog outside or you can show your frustration and
fatigue.
After dinner, your oldest child brings in his
math test, he earned a 'B.'
You can choose to encourage and recognize the
effort or tear him down by asking why it wasn't
an 'A.'
When you go to work in your shop later in the
evening, you can choose to wear PPE and work
safely or you can make the choice not to wear
it.
At bedtime, as you turn off the light,
you can choose to tell your spouse what he/she
means to you or you can keep quiet.
What kind of day would it have been if you chose
the former in all cases?
What type of day would it have been if you had
decided on the latter in all situations?
In these cases there are not any 'rights' or
'wrongs' just simple choices.
The hidden secret of life however is that
we are a product of the simple decisions we make
each moment.
Each day we make hundreds if not thousands of
choices.
We make a conscious choice for happiness, a
smile, love, kindness or generosity.
Or we just as easily opt for
smallness, fear, anger, resentment,
manipulativeness, bitterness or hatred.
So, what type of day is it?
The choice is up to you...
Matt Forck
