There is always a choice.

I like this phrase. It's kind of like here to help, there is a lot of room for interpretation. No matter what situation you are in, there is a choice. You can choose your response, your attitude, to follow, to lead, the choices (wink) are endless.

The real purpose for me is when I feel my attitude or physical response to a situation I am in going sour and I can internally sort of go to this statement. It grounds me in a place where I can evaluate, is it really necessary for me to get worked up? Do I need to be upset of frustrated? What kind of control do I really have in this situation? Will getting upset help or hurt me? I can go on for a while with questions, but I think you get it.

I have been known to tell kids I talk to about dealing with divorce or difficult family situations that you have a choice, watch what happens around you and determine, do I want to follow in those footsteps or learn from their experiences. For me I try to choose to do the latter. I am not always successful, but for those that know my family story I feel like I have done alright in that department.

There are a lot of places I could go with today's post, but instead I would like to simply provoke you as the reader to ask yourself this:

List the stresses or concerns you have rolling around in your mind, what kind of point of view or perspective choice are you making? Is that choice helping you or hindering you?

Need some more help? Here is an example:

Your place of employment is feeling the economic crunch, you are the bread winner for your household. You have not been given a pink slip, but you are worrying about it.

Are you being cautiously optimistic: keeping faith, but updating your resume and being open to the right opportunity? OR are assuming that your job is lost in the next six months, you are openly looking for a new job, and mailing it in at work? OR another direction might be ignoring it all together and hoping it goes away.

These are all choices, but which one is going to work best for you and your situation/family? I am not here to tell you what is the right decision only to make you think about the choices that you are making and how they are helping you be successful in your everydaylife.

Remind yourself today that there is always a choice in every situation.