I’ve been wanting to write about the power of our decisions lately, but my power to decide to write a blog post wasn’t that strong. See what I did there? Something as simple as that is in your hands. Not mine, not anyone else’s.
Let me start by highlighting on our typical mornings – there are two scenarios to that.
Scenario #1: You wake up late after multiple snoozes to your alarm, look for your clothes, your shoes don’t match, you skip breakfast cause you’re late for a meeting, run out of the house without even smiling at the people passing by you, rush in the car, get stuck in a horrible traffic, miss the meeting anyway, and some idiot decides to cut into your lane, and poof! Just like that, your day started bad.
Scenario #2: You respond to your alarm because you set it up earlier than when you have to actually set it up cause you’re aware that you will be snoozing, wear your clothes, get ready, have a bite for breakfast, say good morning to the people around you, get into your car, grab a coffee before work because you have time to spare, and poof! Just like that, your day is running smooth.
In both scenarios that end very differently, there is only one thing in common, the choice was yours. You wake up, and you choose to be happy, you choose for your day to go right, or wrong – rushed, or smooth, and good, or bad. The same is correct for any other matter; I’ve been running into many bitter people nowadays, they’re so unhappy that other people’s happiness makes them sad. How miserable does that sound to you? To the extent that they would criticise almost every person, not knowing that they themselves are full of flaws. I only have one thing to say to those people, if it’s someone dragging you down, then fly as far as you can from them, if it’s a situation that’s making you this bitter, then fix it – or stop letting it control your life! People around you will “not” stop living their lives happily and the way they want to just because you’re miserable.
There is one thing that’s so simple, yet it tends to slip people’s minds that I want to emphasise on “YOU-HAVE-THE-POWER” to change, to be happy, to become better, to end your misery, to say no, to say yes, to say “I don’t know”, to apologise, to be selfish, to be respectful, to do what’s expected from you. Stop blaming other aspects and factors of your life. Start taking responsibility for your actions and start taking matters to your own hands. Don’t wait until it’s too late.
See, my will power to want to write this blog finally came through. No one told me to do it, and no one told me not to do it. It was my choice to share this with you, and here I am doing it.
Until later, decision makers...