The best choices you have made in your life
When we make our personal CHOICES, it is important to select carefully and as wisely as possible! If/ when you aren't proud of your personal decisions and choices, chances are, you will proceed with far - more stress and tension, and self-doubt, than needed, necessary, or personally confident, and productive! With that in mind, this article will attempt to briefly consider, examine, review, and discuss, using the mnemonic approach, what this means and represents and why it matters in several ways.
1. Character; conscience: Are you consistently proud of your quality of character, personal priorities, and why you do, what you proceed, to - do? When satisfied with this, you become capable of proceeding forward with a comfortable conscience and providing yourself some meaningful, essential self-help!
2. Healing; head/ heart; humane: Do you prefer to proceed humanely, and emphasize healing potential wounds, and creating a thought - process, which benefits most of us? To do so requires coordinating both our emotional and logical components in a head/ heart balance! Doesn't that make sense?
3. Options; opportunities; open-mind: Free yourself of as much self-doubt as possible, so you might proceed forward and move beyond the self-imposed restrictions of your personal comfort zone! Only when you maintain an open - mind will you consider various options and alternatives and take advantage of the finest - possible opportunities!
4. Integrity; imagination; ideals; ideas/ insights: Avoid the temptation to lie to yourself and maintain absolute, genuine integrity! Maintain a relevant image, and maximize your personal ideals, so your ideas, and insights, are relevant, realistic, and productive!
5. Clarity; choose: Only, when/ if, you proceed, with quality, and clarity, will you be able to choose the best path for you to follow!
6. Excellence; endurance; enrich; efforts: Avoid settling for good - enough, and/ or settling, for, merely, the same - old, same - old! Rather, demand your utmost degree of personal excellence in everything you do, so your activities and lives are enriched by the quality and level of your efforts!
7. Solutions; strengths/ stronger; serving: When we learn to identify and effectively use our strengths to make ourselves stronger and address areas of weakness, proactively, etc., we maximize the opportunities to proceed, in a way, which brings - about viable solutions, and emphasizes, serving our own best interests, and perceptional perceptions!
Are you proud of your personal CHOICES consistently? Give yourself a check-up from the neck-up so you proceed with the level of objective introspection, which will benefit your life!
Richard has owned businesses, been a COO, CEO, Director of Development, consultant, professionally run events, consulted to thousands, and conducted personal development seminars for 4 decades. Rich has written three books and thousands of articles.
Rob Hatch wrote an interesting blog entry a couple of weeks ago at Human Business Works. It was about choice. One measure of success, he said, is the ability to make choices. A series of good choices helps you grow as a person, improve your skills and judgment, and meet other productive people. Those things, in turn, open the range of choices you have available to you.
Rob also cited the work of Connie Podesta, noting that in one of her speeches, she asks two questions:
- Are you proud of your professional choices?
- Are you proud of your personal choices?
Those are two interesting questions, and they should give you a lot to chew on. Like you, I can look back on my life and find choices I’m not happy with and choices I could have made better.
What are the opposites of these two questions? Not everyone would choose these words, but I think the opposites are:
- Are you ashamed of your professional choices?
- Are you ashamed of your personal choices?
“Ashamed” is not a word we often hear anymore. We might talk about being embarrassed, but being “ashamed” seems a bit archaic. It harks back to what many see as an older morality.
I believe, though, that feeling shame can be healthy if it stings enough to set you on a new course. We all want to feel proud of ourselves and our choices, so much so that we often avoid looking at our failures and the choices and actions that should repulse us.
I’m not for wallowing in shame, far from it. But I believe that if you feel it once in a while, you’ll be that much more motivated to make choices you can be proud of.
What about you? Does shame or guilt play any role in your life? And do you take time to examine and learn from it when you feel it?
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