Live life to the fullest

 We only get one shot at this thing called life. Early in life we are asked to make major choices that will impact the remainder of our lives. While in our teens or twenties we often choose the person we will marry, choose a career, select a university to attend or choose to not pursue a college education, decide on having children and make many other choices that will determine what much of our life will look like. The critical choices we are forced to make is why I started this blog and wrote The Consequences of our Choices. I'm still trying to find a publisher or agent for this book, but I feel that the message found in the book is so important that I started this blog to help people make better choices in life.

In America we are free to make almost any choice we want to make, but we are not free to avoid the consequences of those choices, and every choice does have consequences. Some have made very poor choices in the past, and those choices have resulted in bad consequences. Sometimes people didn't realize that there were other choices available to them. In other cases, they were doing what they've been taught or seen other people do in similar situations. Whatever the reason for the bad choice, they are now living with the natural results of the decisions they made.

The good news is that we do not have to live with the wrong choices we made in the past. We can take the initiative to reverse those earlier decisions and set a direction for our lives that will be more positive and lead to better results. I am not suggesting this will be easy, but it can be done. In fact, it is being done every day by people who grew tired of the circumstances they were living in. They decided they wanted better for themselves and their loved ones and took the steps necessary to live that better life.

One example that will relate to a lot of people is in the area of personal finances. Many Americans are caught in a cycle of debt and poverty. Even though they may make good money, it all goes to debt repayment. At the end of the month they are as broke as they were when the month began. For many of us, we work too hard and make too much money to live that way. We can change that cycle by attacking our personal finances in a way that will pay off that debt and set us on the road to financial security. Will it be easy? No. Will there be pain involved in doing this? Yes, but it will be short-lived and that's better than spending our entire lives broke.

We could made the same comments about people caught up in difficult marriages, the challenges we have in raising our children, how we relate to failure, how we react during dark times in our lives, and every other aspect of our lives. Did you choose a career as a young person that you can't stand today? You can make a new choice to move into a different career. Again, it won't be easy, but it can be done.

We've been given one life here on earth to live. Let's do everything we can to make it the most positive, happy life we can. The choice is ours.