Choices, Challenges, and Change

Ken Brown said it best, “life is about choices, challenges, and change.” However, he has a different way of employing these words into everyday life. I took these words as an enactment of thought to behavior. First, we make a choice to live our life in a certain manner:  Goals. Then, we are face with challenges (or I like to call them puzzles) based on our overall goal, e.g., choice. And then we make a behavioral or thought change to accomplish those goals.

This all sounds simple! And the truth of the matter is that it is simple. It takes evaluating your life to see where you are currently and where you want to be. This self-evaluation includes short-term and long-term goals. Ask yourself what it takes to get from where you are today to where you want to be in 30 days, a year, 5 years, and 30 years.

After you’ve made your decisions, you know you will be faced with challenges (or puzzles). I do not believe there is such thing as a challenge. You just must find a way to be better to overcome these challenges or life obstacles. I think life challenges are God’s way of seeing how committed you are to achieve your goal. Also, I think life obstacles come to make you a better person. We’ve all heard the saying ‘to much is given, much is required.’ [Food for thought] If you put success in incapable hands, it is just plundered with little to no residual effects to those who need it the most. I’ve found successful people have a giving heart.

Finally, when you’ve made a choice to work toward a specific goal and address the challenges before you, you then see change in your thoughts and behavior. Not only do you see within yourself, you’ll see change with others and your situation. In life, I feel alive when it comes to changes. You’ve often heard that ‘if you aren’t growing, you are dying.’ That’s how I feel when engaging in these life changing thoughts.  

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