“The talent is in the choices.”
- Robert De Niro -
As we complete this year and move on to the next, we are where we are, individually and collectively, as a result of the choices we’ve made. Those choices we’ve made over the last year, and longer. But also the choices we’ve made since waking up this morning.
No matter how confined and how hopeless the current situation may seem, we didn’t get here overnight. There were a lot of big and small choices made along the way, combined with previous choices that end up looking something like this.
That’s not to say that we get up in the morning and scoop up a big steaming pile to put on our platter for the day. Not all of our choices are conscious or made from a Divine awareness point of view. There are plenty where we don’t pay all that much attention because we’re distracted with other more pressing issues. But the collective trend is always moving in one direction or another. It’s just math.
Making better choices now is really our only option. It won’t magically make everything better in an instant, but it will start slowing down and reversing the trend.
The good news is that we don’t have to spend the next 10 years in a singular direction to correct our course of the last 10 years. We can quickly compensate for our stab it and steer navigation with just a few solid choices in a new direction.
As we head in that general direction, so many new choices that are even more fun will start to show up. Wisely choosing a few of those in the next batch, builds momentum and things start falling into place.
Again, it doesn’t suddenly change the landscape, it may even make us realize that things are worse than we realized when we were dazed and confused. But too often we identify our worth, our ability, with our previous choices and our current location. There is that within us that is greater than anything we’ve known, done or believed up to now. The talent is reminding ourselves and each other of that Intelligence we are eternally expressing…especially when it seems to be nowhere in sight, obscured by recent choices.
What really matters is not so much where we’ve been, but where we choose to go from here. There are so many choices, and no matter how loudly those around you are clamoring for you to hurry up and come on and move already, feel free to take an extra moment to remember some really great choices you’ve already made, remind yourself of that talent that is still available to you, and choose several that really light your fire!
Life is truly wonderful!
