Choices Hurt Our Decisions

We are living in a time when we have so
 many choices from foods to eat, places to visit, technology to buy, and things to occupy our time.  If you drive the length of five blocks in any urban city, you will have your choice of liquor stores, restaurants, corner stores, and churches.  Yet with these choices, liquor sales have increased, and attendance in churches have decreased.  We have so many choices like never before to communicate with people but yet interpersonal communication is a lost art.  We have lost touch with knowing how to speak to the humanity in people.  There are so many methods that save us time from microwaves to GPS systems, yet we are always in a rush.

Even though we have a plethora of choices, we still manage to make poor decisions.   But why is this?

People reject the process it takes to make decisions and see the results of making that decision become reality.  In order to make decisions that will change your life for the better, you must be conscious of your moments. To be conscious within your moments, means to be disciplined and not distracted.  To be disciplines means that we have to be patient.  Patience means that things do not come immediately but they come when Jesus Christ, the Universe, Allah, or Buddha believes your spirit is ready to receive that thing.

While there are more things in technology to assist in everyday living, those same things can pose as a distraction also.  How many times have you come home and just sat in front of the TV for the rest of the night while flipping thru over fifty channels.  I wonder how many of us watch anything which we actually learn something?  Watching TV is not the problem so much because how many people can resist it but what we are watching is the issue.  So, you watch all of this fluff then you complain that you are not moving forward in life.  Well, you can not move forward, when your conversation consist of only reality shows and sports.

That example may be extreme but it is true.  We give up our goals so quickly, we give up on love so hastily, and we hate ourselves so easily.  We do all of these things without question and accompanied by excuses.  I can not start a goal because my life is not right, or I can not change my life because this is the way its supposed to be.  Each person's life is the way it is because you are the sum of our choices.  Most of us do not remain in a decision making process long enough to create a positive impact within our lives. Instead we let things distract us and then use those things as excuses.

The question you should ask when deciding on the choices in your life:

1. Is this necessary?
2. How will it empower my life?
3. What changes will I have to make to make sure this choice is impactful?

We as human beings have so many choices yet most of us choose from things that are just within our reach and sometimes those things are not good for the person you could become in the future.  The amazing thing regarding our process of choice is that most of our choices have to do with the external and not the internal.  When is the last time you made a choice that would enhance your internal such as meditation, prayer, or personal development etc.  We have so much stuff covering us that we barely have time to find where our soul stops and our spirit begins.

Its not that we have too many choices which causes us to fail, its the simple fact that our many choices causes us to not make powerful intentional choices that will change our life greatly.  Choices that will affect the internal and therefore slowly change the external.

Remember, choosing to upgrade your phone does not upgrade you.

Until we connect again, may your dreams remain abound.