In this episode, we explore the power of choice on the eve of Election Day in the United States. Learn how to make decisions, even when it’s tough, and that not making a decision is a decision, which has consequences that may be far worse than making a choice, even if it isn’t perfect or ideal.
Question Why: Why don’t we own our power to choose what we do with our lives? How might your life be different if you decided to choose how you live it?
Why not voting is a privilege that most people cannot afford, especially those who fought to exercise that right in the past.
Three points on why this matters:
1. The power to choose is one of the most foundational and fundamental freedoms of being a human.
2. Your life, your future, your trajectory is within your control.
3. If you want to change the world, you will have to make choices, especially when you don’t want to. It’s often the toughest choices that are the hardest to make, that matter the most and have the biggest impact on your life.
Politics, like life, is not an all-or-nothing proposition. If you’re first choice for dinner, or body wash, or a car or a house, you make the next best choice.
Pour the Glass Moment: The toughest decisions to make are often those that have the greatest impact on our lives. You don’t absolve yourself of the consequences by not making a choice.
Three Tips on How to Do the Thing
1. Start by removing avoidance [not making a choice] from your list of options.
2. Understand that perfection is not the goal; progress is the goal.
3. Make the best choice for you based on what you know and need right now.
Homework: Take some time this week and think about all the choices you GET to make. Commit to making the best decision you can based on what you know now. If you are in the US, go and vote tomorrow, if you haven't already.
Encouraging Word: Relish in the fact that we all get the right to choose, which is a privilege.
Additional resources:
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Show credits:
Producer: Nathan Ivey IG/FB @nathaniveycreative