YOU and CHOICE
The choice is a central part of life. How to make a good Choice for
YOU.
The right, power, or opportunity to choose.
The choice is about YOU and choice is personal and choice effects
others deeply. And the choice YOU make today will affect all the
other choices in the years to come as YOU age. Even a small
choice has ripples. It may not be noticeable but I still effect more
than just today.
Learn to make the correct choice for YOU and to learn from the
wrong choice.
YOUR life is guided and defined by the choices YOU make
Know and appreciate those good choices are harder to make than
poor ones
Accomplishment of an important goal always starts with an
important choice.
Many of YOUR choices are under the control or influence of
others. This should not be but is a normal thing.
Be a good thinker – so that your can make good choices.
Good choices are generated in our minds
Decisions that you make today started with a choice back when.
Choose the good things – integrity, peace, love, forgiveness and
keep choosing the POSITIVE things in life so that YOU will get
where you want to go and
What Does Life Expect from YOU?
I have had, over my lifetime, quite a few in my family that has
had terrible addictions. Whether they have been from alcohol or
drugs – both have been very bad upon their life.
From my observation and I believe many phycologists will agree
that when a person with an addiction crosses the line to being
called an addict – the person’s development stops at that time
and until the can get over that addiction the maturing and
development will always be there and in their life. That person’s
choices will not be positive or in their best interest or their family
or friends best interest. The choice for an addict is always about
feeding the addiction – that is their #1 priority. Everything else
takes second in their life.
For those of us who are not addicts – choice has an obvious and
immediate moral significance.
Decision-making is something all of us need to learn to do. And
to master decision-making skills and making good decisions
depends on several factors:
Person’s developmental stage/age
Idea of right a wrong
What the decision-making process entail.
Practice
Starting young to learn to make choices is not too young. I tried
to give my children challenges so they could make a choice and
learn how to make the correct with our family values.
Never give a child more than 2 choices – let them make the
decision and how to choose for them.
As we age we know how to choose and make better choice’s
because we know SELF better and what values we are living by.
YOU and YOUR SPIRIT
YOUR spirit, mind and body all goes together – and has to be
BALANCED in order for you to have a happy and healthy aging
life so YOU do not die sick and have to be taken care. The goal
here at this website on and on this podcast is for you to live
a stress less, comfortable, and physically active life. You
cannot do that unhealthy, in debt, or in bad relationships-whether
with family or friends, whether with women or men.
YOUR SPIRIT can provide a:
Reassuring belief in a greater force or being
Sense of purpose and meaning
Focus on your own or univsal wisdom
Way to understand suffering
Connection with other
Reminder of the good in the world
I believe in a higher power, GOD, some call the force that created
The whole universe
Consider some of the science on religion and spirituality:
People who meditate have increased activity in a “feel-good”
are of the brain.
People with strong religious beliefs recovered faster from heart
surgery than people with weaker faith
People who did not attend religious services died significantly
younger than those who attended more than once a week
There are different paths of spirituality that are listed:
Religious institutions:
they say people who attend a house of worship regularly are
happier and healthier, research shows. Likely because of the
social connection.
Pray or focus on your notion of God.
Read religious texts
Talk with others
Volunteer
Meditation:
Research also shows that meditation offer not only calm but help
with anxiety and depression, cancer, chronic pain, asthma, heart
disease and high blood pressure.
Take up to an hour a day
Here are some types of meditations you may do:
Deep breathing
Mindfulness meditation
Visualization
Repeating a mantra
Some of these paths to your spiritual side:
Focus on your goals, values and belief
Keep a journal
Read inspiring stories or essays
Be open to new experiences
Look at what is good in yourself and others
Listed below are 10 tools that you could use:
- Connect with others
- Stay positive
- Get physically active
- Help others
- Get enough sleep
- Create joy and satisfaction
- Eat well
- Take care of your spirit
- Deal better with hard times
- Get professional help if you need it
Over the years I have done all of the above and each have
helped me over the years.
I am a work in progress still – almost 75 years old – I am still a
work in progress and will be until I pass over the bridge.
The #1 thing YOU need to take care of is stress
All of the above should help you do that but be:
Strong
Courageous
Forgiving
If you cannot handle stress nothing is going to work well for long
Anger, stress, not forgiving, jealous. These are hurtful things
that can destroy your life. – your mind, body and spirit.
Stay above these things –get them out of your life.