Just what are choices?  Decisions that we make when we have to pick one or the other??  Strong feelings that move us to act in a certain way?  An eeny-meeny-miney-moe game?
Think about the choices you have made in your life.  From the very simple basic choices to the HUGE life changing ones.
The following choices represent what I would call the small size daily choices that we make each day.  When you wake up in the morning you have a choice get up or stay in bed.  Your very first choices can effect the day in a big way.  You choose what kind of mood you’re going to be in.  You choose to smile or frown.  But nevertheless you choose.
You move along to the bathroom…you choose your shampoo, soap, toothpaste, toothbrush, etc.  To the closet you go to choose your clothing and shoes.  You even choose to the leave your bedroom.

Then there are the medium size choices.  Like, what to put in your body for the coming meals and snack times.  These are medium size because they can determine how you will look and feel inside and out.  More medium size choices…Being on time for work, school or appointments.  Someone else might set the time but you make the choice whether or not to honor it.  Keeping social engagements is another medium size choice.  Who you socialize with can be defined as a medium size choice in your life but can build up to become a large size choice too.
Large size choices have great power over the small and medium.  When you make a large size choice it can have a ripple effect.  In other words, the choice moves out to spread to other areas of your life including your relationships on all levels.
Large size choices could include education, where to live, (geographically and structurally), getting married, having children, occupation.   You get the picture.
Most people it seems make choices based on something someone else told them.  When we’re youngsters we listen and believe most of what we are told by the grown ups in our lives.  Their choices become our choices until we are old enough to want to make other choices.  And even age doesn’t necessarily mean we will make other choices.
So, our days are filled with choices.  That’s a good thing.  But what happens when the choices we’ve made no longer serve us?
Well, we can change our toothpaste, we can eat healthier. Small and medium choices, seem pretty easy when it’s time to make other choices.  But what about those large choices?  Are they that easily changed??  If a different choice is made who does it effect?  What will be disturbed by it?  Anything?

If you come to realize that the choice you made that was a size large is no longer the choice you want, what do you do?
*Some would say make a new choice.  If it disturbs anyone else, so be it, the choice maker needs to be happy.
*Other folks might say take everything into consideration.  Maybe a compromise can be reached.  Have a conversation about you feeling the need for a choice change.
*Or perhaps stay with your original choice and make some small and medium choice changes instead.
Our lives are about choices.  Each and every day.
Make choices wisely.
Make choices compassionately.
Make choices with confidence.
Make choices you’ve thought through thoroughly.
Make your own choices.