Elephants Don’t Bite – Choices
Have you ever been bitten by an elephant? How about a mosquito? It’s the little things in life that will bite you.
Our lives are completely dependent upon an accumulation of all the choices we make.
These choices can send us sky rocketing to our goals or they can throw you far into a deep hole that will require more than just a ladder to climb out. The funny thing is that it is not usually the big mistakes that sabotage our lives, but the frequent and minuscule choices that has you digging a hole that it is too deep to climb out of.
Heck, we all fall victim to these dumb choices and I fell miserably for this evil trap. If you really think it, life basically exists because you made a choice about something. Once you make a choice soon after comes a result. Whether it is a good or bad result is based upon the choice you have established in the beginning.
Each choice starts a behavior that over time soon becomes a habit.
If that choice becomes a bad habit, you will find yourself often making harder choices or using more force to get yourself off that bad habit.
So here is where I stand today. I’ve got a confession to make and I can tell you from experience that this phenomenon of slowly digging your own grave will creep on you without any warning at all. A few months ago I felt that I was on my way to becoming someone who I felt I could be proud of. Financially I was doing pretty good, I had awesome support from people who were constantly uplifting me, I was waking up with enthusiasm, and felt that I was living an empowering life. However, I soon strapped on a bomb to my chest and set the timer to explode with each small, insignificant choice I began to make. I reverted to my old bad habits in thinking that I should reward myself for all the hard work I have put in and what I have accomplished.
I first started to watch mindless TV shows again…which lead to hours of wasted time that made me panic about doing work late at night. Stressed and needing to stay up, I reverted to drinking soda (which I haven’t done in years) in order to stay up. With having little sleep I began to feel sluggish through out the day and unmotivated because I didn’t have the same energy as before. Stressed because of not feeling like I was having a fulfilling life I decided to go out to night clubs to look for that long lost excitement again. As you might have guessed this resulted in late nights out, an empty wallet, and days wasted recovering because of all the money I spent donating to the life of bad habits. This constant cycle plummeted me down the rabbit’s hole.
So now what is there to do? I and like many of us have allowed ourselves to make choices with out thinking about the consequences. As long as you continue making a choice unconsciously, you can’t consciously choose to change that ineffective behavior and turn it into productive habits. In other words…WAKE UP and make empowering choices.
In essence, you make choices, and then your choices make you.
Now I’m not telling you to make some drastic change right now and turn every bad habit into a good one. The biggest challenge is that you’ve been sleepwalking through your choices. Half the time, you’re not even aware you are making them. What separates the successful from the mediocre is that the successful are aware of making choices that support the expansion of life while the mediocre make unconscious decisions. Just by simply being aware of your choices and spending 30 seconds weighing the risks and potential outcomes of some of your decisions could save you days, months, even years of bad habits.
Nobody intends to sabotage themselves and become obese, go through financial hardship, or destroy a great relationship, but often (if not always) those consequences are the result of a series of small, poor choices. It is time to WAKE UP! ![]()
Stay tuned to future posts where I will be sharing with you guys some techniques and fundamentals that will help in regaining that momentum.
See you at the top,
Jus10
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