In a recent post, I wrote about making different choices in order to get the results you want. Shortly after, I was having lunch with a friend who was complaining about her weight gain. She made this statement, straight-faced, while she cleaned her plate of the cheeseburger, fries, and even the dill pickle on the side. I think the diet soda was the depth of her commitment to weight management.
I wanted to remind her that the cheeseburger didn’t fall into her mouth. The waitress didn’t ignore her unspoken desire for salad nicoise with fat-free dressing on the side and instead force the high-caloric meat patty and grease-soaked fries on her like a robbery victim at gunpoint. It was her choice to eat it.
And to those people who complain that they have no money, I have to ask, “Who spent it?” Did you invest in in the wrong places?
If you’re lost, who chose the path? Was the map wrong?
Sir Issac Newton defined an undeniable law of motion: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. For every choice, there is a consequence — positive or negative.
In metaphysical terms, what goes around comes around. You reap what you sow. Good, bad, or neutral.
Success is your choice. You choose your job, your friends, and your home. You pave the way for your outcomes with your choices. Do you want prosperity? Then make the choices that will lead you to that destination.
If there is truth to that cliché, then we should get what we want just by sticking around, right? If I hang in there at my job, I’ll get a promotion. If I wait long enough, I’ll get the house I want. So, I’ll just sit here and watch the clock.
Does that make any sense? If you want to achieve great things in your life and for your life, you have to actively pursue them. Success results from the choices you make, and the chances you take. It doesn’t happen by being a bystander.
Whether you live according to a set of religious beliefs, philosophical conviction, a metaphysical connection, or the rules of quantum physics, you are making a choice. Socrates and Plato defined the laws of cause and effect. Do this, and get those results. Simple. So, you make a choice and there is a consequence.
Let’s say you don’t like the consequence. Maybe you just made a bad choice. Don’t accept the result. Trace the effect to the cause, and then change it. If you don’t like your life, make different choices. If you don’t like where you are, move. You’re not a tree. Yes, you have roots, but you can transplant them!
Jesus taught us that if you don’t like the harvest, it’s because of the seeds you have sown. So, give yourself a fresh start — a “do over” — and plant a new seed or even a whole new crop!