CHOOSE BETTER

It’s amazing how life will organize itself around the standards you set for yourself. Some people think they’re the victims of other people’s behaviour, but in reality, we have control over how other people treat us. If you tolerate disrespect, you will be disrespected. If you tolerate being underpaid and overworked, that’s what will continue for you. Why tolerate this? Are you not better than that? Don’t you want more out of your life? As the saying goes; “Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better.” Sometimes life can be a struggle, an uphill battle to get what we want, or where we want to be. Just like a runner hitting the wall, we must push on for the reward, for growth. Hitting the wall isn’t an obstacle, it’s an opportunity. When you hit the wall in your disciplines, training etc., realise that’s when you are separating yourself from your old self. You are moving up to the next level. Don’t compare to anyone else either. View yourself as your toughest competitor and you’ll multiply your results much quicker. In order to do all this we must stay awake during our days. Most of the time shit happens to us because we spend our days ‘sleep walking.’ We are not aware of what’s going on and our ‘stuff’ doesn’t shove you in a direction; they nudge you ever so slightly over time. You have to make good, conscious, choices to get where you want to go. We all come in to this world the same; naked scared and ignorant. The life we end up with is simply an accumulation of all the choices we make. In essence, you make your choices, and then your choices make you. Every decision, no matter how slight, alters the trajectory of your life. You alone are responsible for what you do, don’t do, or how you respond to what’s done to you. The difference between becoming fabulously rich, happy, healthy, or broke, depressed, and unhealthy, is the choices you make throughout your life. Nothing else will make the difference.

Remember this; You cannot see what you don’t look for, and you cannot look for what you don’t believe in. Believe in yourself, you’ll trust your judgement, you’ll trust your choices. Make them good.

Paul.