You only have this moment to make a new choice. No matter if you screamed at your children or your partner 5 minutes ago, right now you can choose to take a deep breath instead. No matter if you made a mistake at work, you can choose now to fix it and create a new ending.
Happy people do not often have the easiest of lives. Most often, the happiest of people are those with many troubles and challenges. This often means that despite their struggles, people are choosing to maintain a happy attitude no matter what. You could take a lesson here.
It is true that some opportunities might need to pass you by based on their particular circumstances. However, so many opportunities come our way each day that could be very useful to our lives. Take a look and see what opportunities are coming your way that you could take advantage of that would serve your life.
Many people don’t have the best of childhoods and wish they could have chosen their roots. However, it is great that as adults we can choose where we go from the childhoods that we had. You can make better choices for yourself and feel perfectly OK about them.
When you really want it, you will make it happen. If you have been holding back, maybe you don’t want it. Take the time to ask yourself what your goals are. Do you want to lose 10 pounds? Do you want to write a novel? Do you want to be your own boss? Then make it happen.
Getting started is the trick. Once you make the first decision, the next decision is a little bit easier. Every choice you make simply makes your destiny clearer to your mind’s eye. You must take each decision with the end in mind.
Those seeds that you plant today, right now, you will harvest later. If you continue to wait for the right opportunity to plant those seeds, you are going to delay that harvest another week, month, year, or, worse yet, inevitably.
Covey is an expert on leadership. He knows that the only things in life are these three categories. You have your principles that come from deep within you which you must discover for yourself. Then you have choices to make. Each choice can lead you down a particular path which gives you the opportunity to grow and change.
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