Hey Y’all! Hope all is well 🙂 It has been a good minute since my last blog post but I have been living the busy mom life! Todays blog is about choices and decisions, which kind of go hand in hand. My husband sent me a little piece of literature this morning about the decisions that we make and how they make a profound impact on our lives. Even the little choices in our day to day all add up in the big picture of things! You wake up in the morning and you make a choice wether to be positive or negative, to be kind or cruel, to wear your hair up or down, to shave or not to shave and so on. The power of choice is sooooo overlooked! Just switching up small daily choices can make all the difference!  From sitting and folding laundry to standing and folding laundry. Parking a little further away from the store, instead of driving around for 15 min looking for the closest spot. Walking past someone or giving them a smile. These little decisions add up in your day to day. It is the same with our decisions with food. Chips or almonds? Chocolate shake or smoothie? Hamburger or grilled chicken (for you meat eaters:)) ? Everything in life is a choice and represents who we are as people. Even with situations that we do not choose or we can’t control, we still have a choice in how we respond!

What can you do to make better decisions that will propel your overall quality of life, physically & mentally?

****THE ARTICLE BELOW IS NOT MEANT TO BE OFFENSIVE IT IS MEANT TO MAKE YOU THINK ABOUT THE DECISIONS YOU MAKE AND HOW YOU HAVE THE POWER TO CONTROL YOU! You might not have the power to control the things that happen around you but you are in control of the decisions that you make****

 

Literature by Thomas Plummer

“We are who we are because of the decisions we make every single day.

We wake up, we decide to either just survive the day once more, or we decide to be a force of nature that changes the world around us. You still had to get up. You still had to go to work. All you had really decided was how you want to live that day.

We decide every single day to be healthy, fit and seek a quality life or we decide to wait trying and have our life shrink away from us as we seek to ruin ourselves one bad decision at a time. Fitness isn’t the big shift in life; fitness is 100 small choices a day that add up to a life well lived.

You could go for a long walk, yet there you sit on the couch staring at a fake reality watching people have pretend lives while you give up yours. Sit on the porch and bark like a scruffy poodle or run big dog, run and live a life unique to you.

You make a decision everyday to touch people, smile, be patient, be generous or decide to be the lame prick the world would quietly celebrate if you left it early.

You decide to read to your child or you decide to park the kid in front of a video while you scroll for an hour. You can decide to put down the phone and try for 30 minutes to be the best parent ever or you decide to check those messages just one more time and yet another chance to love your child is lost.

Every day you decide to be in love with your special person or you decide to let it all go and slowly fade away because you won’t do the work. Get in, or get out, but don’t waste your life and your spouse’s too.

Everyday you decide to be the best employee ever, or simply accept another wasted day being average, taking someone’s money for doing work so much less than your potential. You withhold your talent, you waste your talent and if you do it long enough you lose your talent.

YOU decide to accept aging 20 years before you should, you decide to be a lesser version of your potential, you decide to be a great friend or a lost friend, you decide to be successful or to live a life of quiet frustration and you, and you only, decide how you want to live your life.

Make better decisions,because you control all of this and only you can decide to change it……one decision at a time.”

-Thomas Plummer