What Matters Now - Choices
Life is about making choices and making yourself accountable for the ones you made. Once you realize that, you understand that you are in control. It is not your unfriendly colleague, or your boss, or that aggressive driver, or the economy. It is you. Sure, there are factors that influence your life, but you control the choice to what extent they do so.
If you don't like your job, or your relationship, or the colour of your hair, you have the choice to change it. You have to realize that not changing it, is also a choice. And both, as with most choices, have their consequences. If you choose to stay in a job you don't like, because of the job security and the payment of your bills, then that is a choice. And the consequence is that you are not happy in your work. You are free to change that. If you want both to have a fun job, and a secured monthly income to pay your bills, you have the choice to change careers. Or employer. Or spend less.
Can you choose success? I'm not sure. But you can certainly make the choice to go for it. To be happy, and to do what's within your reach to be as successful as you can be. Failing in that is not a big deal. Maybe you do not achieve the target, but you chose to have fun. And that was then apparently also one of your goals.
So make 2010 about making choices. Then evaluate where they lead you, and if necessary, make a new choice.
This post is inpired by the work of Seth Godin. The book he initiated, What Matters Now, is a great initiative. It brings together brilliant and inspiring people like Jacqueline Novogratz, Elizabeth Gilbert, Chris Anderson and Kevin Kelly, to name but a few, and their thoughts for 2010. Download the book, share it, and tell us what your word for 2010 is.
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