Choices

I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times. Everything we do has a choice. Do we make the right choice every time? Probably not, some decisions are not that easy. Should you buy the brand name or not? Should you even be shopping? In every life we have big decisions, another baby? A big move, when to retire, getting married, the list is endless. We have to decide what our motivator is. Are we basing decisions to appease others? I hope not, you live with your decisions. I remember a highly regarded television therapist saying to a couple, “ You wanna be right? Or you wanna be married?”

Numero uno is the one that matters, that is the person to keep happy, at the end of the day, your decisions impact you. You live with them, when everything else falls away and the voices quiet, what will help you sleep at night. Delaying a decision is okay too. Today may not be the day to decide. Process, weighing the impact, gauging the risks are all very important. For those important things, take your time. There will always be what ifs, there will be a point of no return. Sometimes you may get to change your mind.

Don’t beat yourself up over wrong decisions. What’s done is done. That is what life is, live and learn. For most, it is the hard way. Just like kids there is no manual, life doesn’t have one either. Trial and error, a thousand advisors, worse case scenarios. A perfect plan can still go awry. I don’t think any decision has left me completely settled in my own judgement. I am happy, I am safe and I am still here. Hindsight will always be 20/20. Being certain is the end of the rainbow, the dream you will always chase. Just live, just breathe!