CHOICES: ONE HAND OR THE OTHER

Choices.

We all face choices all of the time. The most significant choices we make are how we spend our time and the behavioural choices we make. We can all say 'this is the way I am' when we choose to follow our emotional head, but the realisation of responsibility to ourselves and those we engage with is the first step of evolution.

One of the most common choices I watch people face is to either stay in the 'comfort rut' or step out of the crowd to achieve. The problem of a rut is simply it is a comfortable place to spend your time because you're on automatic program following the well trodden path. The reason it is called a rut is because a countless number of people have passed the same route and it's  not necessarily one that actually is to anyone's benefit. There's no creativity in a rut,  no flair or prospect of wealth, fame or the ideal lifestyle, just a future leading into the deepest rut of all six feet under for an eternity. How people choose this as a future I will never know, and whatever the excuse it is a personal choice.

Usually there are two choices available to all of us. On one hand you will find fear and inactivity, on the other courage and achievement. There isn't much in-between to find attractive although many people like to feel safe in the middle ground of ineffective non decision making, for here in the no mans land of observation, critic, devils advocate, scepticism, and all the other pursuits of the inactive individual, the listener who analysis everything but never actually applies anything. Achievement takes guts and determination to step out from the crowd to make a difference and inspire others to more.

The Olympics is there to inspire future generations to achievement, but as an individual what have you done in the last week to inspire anyone, what will you be doing over the coming weeks to inspire others. Only though stepping up to the plate, putting your neck on the block do you really make the ultimate choice, being a member of the human race demands of you. Try not to wimp out, too many people take the automated route, take the path less travelled, it's where all the true rewards are found.