Sometimes Choices Are Hard

How many choices do you think we make in a given day? Month? Year?

I know some days it feels like way too many. If I'm honest, some days I'm sick and tired of making them.

But we don't have a choice (pun intended) when it comes to making choices.

It's part of life.

Some of the choices we have to make are easy.

• Chocolate or vanilla?

• T-shirt or sweatshirt?

• Coffee or juice?

Those choices generally don't impact the course of our lives. But they still have to be made. And they still take mental energy.

Then you layer on slightly more difficult choices.

• Go for a run in the gym or sit and relax?

• Stay up an extra hour or go to bed?

• Be at your daughter's choir concert or go to that work meeting?

These types of choices come with tradeoffs over time. And more mental energy.

Then there are the choices that feel like they can make or break the course of your life.

• Stay at your current job or take that leap to do something you really love?

• Find a way to make your relationship work or move on?

• Sell your home and move to somewhere new or stay where you are comfortable?

These choices come with a cost and sometimes more mental energy than we feel like we have available.

And to make matters worse, there's not a magic 8-ball that can tell us which choice is the right one.

Even the people around us who are sounding boards in life can't give us a definite answer one way or the other.

The not knowing can be incredibly hard.

But the only way we grow is by pushing ourselves. Pushing ourselves to make those hard choices.

After awhile...after we've lived enough life to make more than our share of choices, it does get a little easier.

We can look back and reflect on how things turned out.

We can see the good that came out of the choices we made, what we learned, and how they changed us.

And we can appreciate the way they've shaped our paths in life.

Sometimes choices are hard.

Make them anyway.

You literally have no other choice.

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