Choices

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”
Denis Waitley

We always have choices. The problem that most of us run into is that we don’t know what our choices really are. Sometimes we aren’t aware that we have any choice. Sometimes we feel like a situation is hopeless. Sometimes we feel like we just don’t know what to do about a situation. We feel like things are out of our control, that they are controled by someone else. And then we tend to complain and blame the other person for creating a situation that we don’t want. But even if we can’t change the situation, we can always choose what we are going to do about it.

We can choose to accept conditions as they exist. This is much easier if we beleive that God really has our best interests at heart and maybe there is a good reason that things are this way that we just can’t see yet. We need to beleive that every cloud has a silver lining, and if we just wait patiently that silver lining will eventually show itself. “The darkest hour is just before dawn”.

We can choose to accept the responsibility of changing things. If we don’t like the situation, we need to tell the right people that, if the situation really is due to someone else’s decisions and under someone else’s control. Or, if it is possible, we can personally take action to make things better, even if it is difficult and other people don’t like what we are doing. Taking action is the best antidote for worry and even fear that there is. The more action we can take, the more empowered we can feel. And, of course, the more empowered we feel, the more successful we can be. But our response is always our choice.