What a fantastic article from Chris Widener about choices! I truly believe our lives are defined by the choices we make and more importantly how we react to a bad choice.
This is definitely worth a read:
Choice: Privilege, Opportunity and Responsibility
by Chris Widener
One of my absolute favorite quotes is from Dwight D. Eisenhower. He said, “The history of free men is never written by chance, but by choice—their choice.”
What a powerful truth. We can, and do, write our own history. That is, when our life is nearing the end, we can look back and see that the history we leave behind, the legacy we leave for our children, is the accumulation of the choices we made all along the way.
As I think about this, I realize that some may view it from the back end and it may seem hopeless, but we can be proactive about it and decide now that we will begin to make choices that will bring us to our desired end.
Before I talk about privilege, opportunity, and responsibility, I want to make something perfectly clear, and it is something that you must embrace if you are going to see your life continually improve and change for the better. I believe that…
Anyone can have as much money as they choose to.
Anyone can weigh what they choose to.
Anyone can have the job they choose to have.
Anyone can have the level of peace that they choose to have.
Anyone can do anything they choose to do.
