The Choice Is Yours

#UnBlockYourself 425: The choice is yours

 

Over the years, at the end of our prayer time with the kids and staff at the center, Ms. B. has graced us with wisdom and gave us this charge as we would start our day: “Make it a great day or not, the choice is yours.” 

 

There is so much packed into this one statement. 

 

First off, there has to be a decision made. Not only that, but the power to make this day a great day or not has been given to us. 

 

And I’ll tell you this, every decision to act or not act affects the rest of your life. The decision to have just one more cookie can lead to high blood sugar on down the road because “just one more” lead to another and another and another. On the flip side, saving that money from not going out can cause you to like your own cooking, which leads to you cooking for yourself, and then others, and then a restaurant, and multiple locations and now you’re a retired multi millionaire because of those decisions. 

 

The choice you make also comes from how you view things. I think of your mind having its own positive and negative filtration system. So many situations are neutral, but the you see will be determined by how it’s filtered. 

 

I had one of my tropical plants really just shrivel up and die on me. I saw it as dead, it was sad and I never got around to throwing it away. But to my plant lady, (Ms Nancy) she sees that all the time, “it just needs a plant vacation” (sit it outside for some sun, water, and air). Not dead at all. 

 

We may see hopeless fixer upper, but some with an eye for it may see a gold mine. 

 

So the decision is ours.

We choose greatness or not. 

It is an ongoing thing. 

We make the choices by the filters we use in our mind. 

Lastly, we influence the filters by what we allow to influence them. 

Another choice causing greatness or not. 

 

The old cliché is that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, and get this if you fill your eyes with trash, trash will be the only thing you are able to see.