Dr. Ben Bowers

6/3/2012

Think about the word “Choose.”

It may just be the single most important word in your life.

Why?

Let’s look at what the dictionary says about the word “choose”

1. to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: Example: She chose Sunday for her departure. 
2. to prefer or decide (to do something): Example: He chose to run for election. 
3. to want; desire. 
4. to make a choice: Example: He chose carefully. 
5. to be inclined: Example: You may stay here, if you choose. 

Now, let’s look at #3: “to want, to desire,” We all have wants and desires; you can “choose” to love or not be loved. You can choose to seek after that which you desire, or simply hope it will magically come to you someday.

Now, look at #1 “to select from a number of possibilities” WOW, this is powerful. A number of possibilities, I would say this is almost unlimited.

Here are some examples:

1. You could choose to live a sedentary life or an active life.
2. You could choose to imagine your life as successful or believe that success will never come your way.
3. You could choose to believe in something when all those around you say you should not believe in it.
4. You could choose to take “action” or not take action.
5. You could choose to gain knowledge by reading newsletters, magazines, blogs, and books, as well as listening to podcasts and videos that will empower you with life changing information, or you could choose to just watch more TV. (Think about this when watching TV, VIRTUALLY EVERYONE YOU ARE WATCHING IS GETTING PAID TO BE ON TELEVISION, how much do you get paid to watch it?)
6. Look at #2 from the dictionary listing above. To prefer or decide (to do something): Example: He chose to run for election. Every President the United States has had to first chose to seek and/or accept the job.

You see, it is “YOU” that chooses, YOU have the power to choose the direction of your life.

• You can choose to seek success.
• You can choose to have a healthy body by choosing what you put in it and what you do with it.
• You can choose to use the power of attraction by creating a movie in your mind of you succeeding and believing that the success you are visualizing is already yours!
• You can choose to take that new job in another city.
• You can choose to forgive.

But here is the bottom line.     It is “YOU” who must choose, no one else can choose for you.

Here is an important question – Will you choose?     Make no mistake about it, even if you choose NOT to choose you have chosen a direction for your life – that is so POWERFUL!

So I challenge you today to look at your life and CHOOSE! Choose what it is that you are willing to accept and what it is that you are willing to change!

• Choose success
• Choose unconditional love
• Choose health
• Choose to take the time to teach your children what you have learned about choosing.

Let’s look at the difference between “Choose vs Chose”. Both words are simply different aspects of the same verb, the difference being in the “tense” of the verb. For me, I remember it as “choose” is now or in the future, where as “chose” is in the past.

So, you know that there are areas of your life “RIGHT NOW” where you have failed to make a choice – to chose. The question then remains, are you going to stick with that choice, and continue to choose that result? Or are you going to reevaluate the past chose (choice) and choose a new outcome?

Since You have The Power to Change / Choose, what are you now going to do?

It is all up to you!!!