STORY:
Every Choice Counts!

By Gary Ryan Blair
Special to Everything2000

Every choice must have a purpose: to move you closer to your goals!

As your birthright you are given your greatest power-the power to choose. Every moment offers you a choice: to exercise this power by setting and holding a direction or to veer off course.

Every choice counts! There are no insignificant choices, no neutral actions. Even the smallest gesture has a consequence, leading you toward or away from your goals.

Choices are the meat of your daily diet. Your quality of life is a direct reflection of the quality of the choices and decisions you've made up to this moment.

The greatest form of abuse in this world is the self-abuse resulting from wrong thinking and bad choices. The culprits of your struggles are your thoughts and corresponding choices-change them, and your life will turn for the better.

Some say that you must "play the hand that life deals." But you build that hand largely from a deck of your own choices. Your hand improves as your choices improve.

Improving the condition of your life is an inside job. By choosing thoughts and actions that move you in the direction of your goals, you are bound to improve your station in life.

Every choice carries a consequence. There are no exceptions. If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment, why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?

If you change your thinking, you change your choices. If you change your choices, you change your life!

Thoughts are the birthplace of choice, and thoughts become things!

Everything in life first begins as a thought. When you make good choices based on the thoughts in your mind, your thoughts become things, reality. That's the law! When you examine the anatomy of a desirable outcome, you will find that all outcomes begin life as thoughts.

You can choose to be friendly or unfriendly, to be cooperative or stubborn, to be understanding or sarcastic, to be hopeful or hopeless, to wear a smile or a frown, to be excellent or mediocre... to have V8 or tomato juice. Choose the thoughts and deeds that get you your V8!

Decisiveness pulls more weight than correctness does. In some situations, you won't know what to do. You will want to do the right thing and have some sort of guarantee that everything will turn out fine, but you will feel unsure whether one course of action is better than an alternative. Make a decision. Whether that decision is right or wrong, you'll soon receive feedback that will help you progress.

Do not allow yourself to be victimized by your own indecision! You go through this life just once-choose wisely. Choose to make the most of life for yourself and everyone else around you. Why? Because, when it comes to thoughts and choices, everything counts!

Gary Ryan Blair, "The GoalsGuy", is the author of the best selling book What Are Your Goals? He writes and speaks extensively on the subject of goal-setting. His "Everything Counts" series will appear on Everything2000.com each Monday through January 2000. For more information visit http://www.GoalsGuy.com or call 1-877-GoalsGuy.

DATE: 07/19/99

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