{"id":47,"date":"2017-11-21T11:29:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T11:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifesomeday.com\/november-21-2017-may-the-choice-be-with-you-always\/"},"modified":"2017-11-21T11:29:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T11:29:02","slug":"november-21-2017-may-the-choice-be-with-you-always","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifesomeday.com\/november-21-2017-may-the-choice-be-with-you-always\/","title":{"rendered":"November 21, 2017 May the choice be with you, always.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Various internet sources estimate that an adult makes about 35,000 remotely conscious decisions each day (in contrast a child makes about 3,000).\u00a0\u00a0 This number may sound absurd, but in fact, we make 226.7 decisions each day on just food alone according to researchers at Cornell University (Wansink and Sobal, 2007).\u00a0 As your level of responsibility increases, so does the smorgasbord of choices you are faced with.
\nI feel we can greatly improve our success and happiness if we learn to make some choices once and then not have to make them again.\u00a0 How many times have you made the choice to eat better, exercise, read more, stop smoking or drinking and so on?\u00a0 When raising our boys we work to help them understand making a decision now about drugs, premarital sex or serving a mission allows them to automatically avoid some pitfalls.\u00a0 If we make the decision to never use drugs then when we are asked to or given the opportunities to use them we can simply say no because we have already made the choice.\u00a0 There is no reason to think about it or ponder the decision.
\nIf we will discipline our thinking to choices made in many areas of life, we limit the number of things we have to make decisions on each day.\u00a0 This will give us time to focus on the really important questions that can be procrastinated because we have so many other choices to make.\u00a0 The easiest way to lose weight is the diet and exercise.\u00a0 If you have to make a decision every time you are ready to eat of what you will have today, you will fail.\u00a0 If you have to make the decision every day to work out or not you will go back to bed or watch T.V. because it is the path of least resistance.
\nYou must make the choice once to eat right and exercise and then make those choices the path of least resistance.\u00a0 Change your behavior by planning each meal ahead of time to eliminate the choice.\u00a0 Have your gym clothes and shoes ready to put on when you wake up and put your alarm across the room or in the bathroom so you have to move.\u00a0 When we make a commitment to a new way of living we have to change the path of least resistance and make it easier to stay on that path.
\nWe have had issues with some staff just not being motivated to do the right thing because they were allowed to get away without accountability for a period of time.\u00a0 When you start to reestablish accountability it can be a challenge for those that like not being held accountable.\u00a0 If you do not make the choice to improve accountability once and understand you may lose some of your current team then you will not succeed.\u00a0 Just as with eating right, if you make the decision to hold others accountable on a case by case basis you will lose.
\nChoices have increased in our life time exponentially.\u00a0 Just go to the supermarket and you can see all of the choices we have for basic items.\u00a0 How many different ketchups do I really need to pick from anyway?\u00a0 In our current society I feel an ever-increasing need to make certain choices once and then simply commit to those choices rather than making them over and over.\u00a0 If I had to make the choice to wake up each day at 4 AM, read and study books and write my blog post it would not happen.\u00a0 My phone went off at 4 today and the thought in my mind was like every other day, it would be too easy to just go back to sleep.\u00a0 Thankfully I put in place a morning routine from the books The Five Second Rule and Miracle Morning that made getting up the path of least resistance.\u00a0 It may be hard to imagine a path less resistant than just closing your eyes and going back to sleep but it is possible.
\nChoose today to make fewer choices.\u00a0 Commit to the choices you have made and know you should be doing.\u00a0 Last night it was not hard to sit with my wife and children as they ate pumpkin pie with whip cream because I had already made the choice to my way of eating three weeks ago.\u00a0 Remember we seek things that bring us pleasure and avoid those things that bring us pain.\u00a0 By making the choice weeks ago to be my goal weight the pain of eating deserts is greater than the pleasure of the weighing my goal weight.\u00a0 I pray you will each have the ability to test this principle and that it will impact your life in the way I have seen it impact mine.\u00a0 Commitment to a choice is more valuable than having more choices.\u00a0 Freedom to choose is both a blessing and a curse.\u00a0 I have attached a TED talk<\/a> to help with this point (warning he does use an image I would not use if I was giving the talk).\u00a0 Thank you, and may the choice be with you, always.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Various internet sources estimate that an adult makes about 35,000 remotely conscious decisions each day (in contrast a child makes about 3,000).\u00a0\u00a0 This number may sound absurd, but in fact, we make 226.7 decisions each day on just food alone according to researchers at Cornell University (Wansink and Sobal, 2007).\u00a0 As your level of responsibility …<\/p>\n

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