Assignment: Make a list of the three most important choices you can make right now to add more joy to your life. On a blank journal page, (use one page for each choice you have selected) write down three headings: PLUS, MINUS & INTERESTING. Fill in as many thoughts that come to you for each category, and be honest. Almost always, it is the items in the INTERESTING column which will be the most determinative of the choice you make. Write Now! GO! And make the choice!
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Dr. Shad Helmstetter on Choices
1 “No one else can ever make your choices for you. Your choices are yours alone. They are as much a part of you as every breath you will take, every moment of your life.”
2 “You may think that in life, a lot of things happen to you along the way. The truth is, in life, you happen to a lot of things along the way.”
3 “Choosing to live your life by your own choice is the greatest freedom you will ever have.”
4 “It is only when you exercise your right to choose that you can also exercise your right to change.”
2 “You may think that in life, a lot of things happen to you along the way. The truth is, in life, you happen to a lot of things along the way.”
3 “Choosing to live your life by your own choice is the greatest freedom you will ever have.”
4 “It is only when you exercise your right to choose that you can also exercise your right to change.”
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5 “It is your programming that has created your choices in the past. It is the choices you make today that are creating the programs of your future.”
6 “If you were given only one choice: To choose or not to choose, which would you choose?”
7 “The choices we make by accident are just as important as the choices we make by design.”
8 “Another person’s choice is nothing more than another alternative for you to consider.”
9 “There is no life as complete as the life that is lived by choice.”
10 “There may be a thousand little choices in a day. All of them count.”
11 “Whatever you choose, you might as well enjoy it. It is your choice.”
12 “When you have a problem, make a choice… you’ll feel better.”
13 “If you’d like to know what your choices have been, look at yourself and the life you have lived. What you see is the choices you’ve made.”
14 “Who knows what you could accomplish in life if you made more of the right choices along the way?”
15 “Some people choose to live by complaining. Other people choose to live.”
16 “You cannot manage your life if you do not manage your self. You cannot manage your self if you do not manage your choices. Manage your choices, and you will manage your life.”
17 “Learning what to choose, and how to choose, may be the most important education you will ever receive.”
18 “The choices we make in the heat of emotion would be better if left for some other day.”
19 “Listen to the quietest whispers of your mind. They are telling you the choices that will help you the most.”
20 “Even the best of choices is only as strong as the choices that stand by its side.”
21 “It is the big choices we make that set our direction. It is the smallest choices we make that get us to the destination.”
22 “Each day that passes, your choices will come and go. They are like diamonds in a chest of jewels, each waiting to be discovered.”
23 “Those who choose to succeed always do better than those who never choose at all.”
24 “The highest levels are most certainly filled with those who chose to be there.”
25 “If you have to take time to make a choice, take time. Then make the choice.”
26 “The end result of your life here on earth will always be the sum total of the choices you made while you were here.”
- Dr. Shad Helmstetter, “Choices”
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