“What you get to choose today is who you are and who you choose to be, and what you wish to experience in your life.” – Neale Donald Walsch
I am feeling so inspired by this quote this morning. Could there be anything more freeing than to realize that everyday, we wake up and get to choose who we are and what we want to experience in life? It is incredibly powerful to know that in each and every moment, we are the ones who are in control of how our life is going to go not someone else or something external to us.
Many of us place restrictions on ourselves or make excuses why we can’t have what we want. We say things like, “I’d like to do this, but I don’t have the time, money, resources, skills…..” Each of these things are external and when we continue to focus on our inability to have those things, we continue to feel powerless over our life and unhappy. But what if it’s not about these things we want?
Everything we want in life…more success, a relationship, more money, to lose weight, a new job, a new home, travel, better health, more friends…is not really about the ‘thing we want’ so much as the feeling(s) we believe we’ll feel when we have it. We believe a relationship will make us feel happier, loved, accepted. But really, the relationship is only the means to the end…with the end being us feeling happiness, love & acceptance.
So, what if we turned things on their head a little and instead of focusing on all the ‘things’ we want and don’t yet have (which makes us feel like we aren’t in control of our lives), what if we take the ‘thing’ out of the equation and just focus on feeling whatever feelings it is we are hoping to have when we get the ‘thing.’ It is possible (even if not always easy) to feel an emotion regardless of the circumstances. We’ve all heard that multi-millionnaires often feel like they don’t have enough money and likewise, there are people who have very little and if you asked them, they’d say they are rich beyond measure. It’s not about the money, it’s about what we choose to focus on and what we choose to feel.
Me being able to choose who I am and what life I want to live feels incredibly powerful. Today, I can feel whatever it is I want to feel, whether I have something specific relating to that in my life already or not. I get to choose the path I am walking, I get to choose the emotions I’m feeling, I get to choose what life I want to live.
Are you living the life you choose? Are you the person you want to be?
I challenge you to spend a little time shifting your thinking and feeling the feelings you want regardless of what you have or don’t have in your life and see what happens.
