Options & Choices

Inspirational speaker Ed Mylett once said, “You are most capable and qualified to help the person you used to be.”  How does that quote tie in to “Options & Choices”?  

Let’s talk about it! Life is a series of options and choices. 

Nearly everyday you are faced with options and we have to make choices, whether it’s your health, your relationships, or your career. 

Going through my own health journey including recovering from appendicitis, the subsequent post-infection, suffering through 30 day long bleeds, a gut infection, and abnormally high estrogen levels, I am making the choice to share what I learned with my community. There are alternative testing and therapies available that can seek out root causes of our conditions rather than just masking the symptoms. Everyone needs to know settling for a pill or procedure isn’t the only option. 

Then there are relationships. They definitely can be complications.  I think the biggest empowering notion is:

WE HAVE CHOICES. We can choose how we react to a person or a situation.  

Let me say that again.  

WE ARE IN FULL CONTROL OF OUR REACTION and if we need to take a hot minute to pause and think before we react, do it!  We also have options on how we wish to be treated. We can choose to use our voice to speak up, share our personal boundaries, and to let someone know when they’ve crossed them or compliment them when they’ve honored our boundaries. 

When it comes to our career or job, just because we’ve been doing something for so long doesn’t necessarily mean we have to keep doing it. We have options and we have choices. You can choose to stay in your current career or you can change it. Sometimes it’s a matter of perspective and our attitude.  I remember a time when I disliked my job and I wanted out. A good friend reminded me that “how we do one thing is how we do everything,” so while I didn’t care for that particular job at the time, I found ways to make it work for me and chose to change my attitude.  I chose to focus on being grateful for what that job provided me.  A paycheck, retirement investment, being on the same school schedule as my son so that I could still take him to and from school and have time off with him while he was off and you know what? By CHOOSING to be grateful, I felt better and happier about my job.

Now, I’d like to challenge you.  

Keeping Ed’s quote in the back of your mind, when you have conversations with the people you know or meet new people, think of how you can help someone who is in the same position you used to be in.

How can you share options and choices you have made that could give insight for someone else? 

How can you choose different options and choices that could help yourself? 

Are there instances that you’ve used any of these skills? I would absolutely love it if you shared them with me.