25 Things I've Learned about Choices

As I approach 40 years of practice as a clinical psychologist, the power, parameters and magic of choices continues to intrigue and entice me.  I've heard people say I'm getting old.  I smile to myself as I think of the limitations in their thinking.  Little do they know. 

In the 1980s my wife and I named our outpatient, substance abuse facility, Choices Unlimited.  I love that name, because truly people's choices are unlimited. 

Although my body showed signs of aging, I am not in the declining years of my life and practice.  Instead, I choose to see myself entering life's empowering and enlightening years.  In spite of what I see in the mirror in the morning, I am energized with the  rejuvenating thought: My Choices Are Unlimited!

Also I have learned to view my clients as choice makers with unlimited choices.  Choice makers are like artists.  Choice makers began their creations with raw materials created by their genes and past living experiences.  As I looked over my client's shoulders, I saw and heard their choices of mediums, perspectives, colors and shading transform their genetic predispositions and past life experiences into majestic works of art.

Now, I'd like to tell you about 25 things I have learned about choices.   

1. Choices are powerful and will determine the quality of your life.
2. Choices are limiting as indicated in my post, Psychological Determinism and the Law of Attraction.
3. Choice making should be an inside job.
4. Choice making is available to you in every and any situation.
5. Choice making without action is worthless.
6. All choices create frustrations and have beneficial consequences.
7. People make the best choices available to them within their circumstances.
8. Choices to change motivated by freedom will last. 
9. Repeated conscious choices become unconscious choices.
10. Personality is the repetition of unconscious and conscious choice making.
11. Problems in life are the result of repetitive, unconscious and conscious choice making.
12. Failure in life is result of continuing to make past successful choices in new and changed circumstances.
13. Relationship conflict is caused by repetitive, unconscious and conscious choice making.
14. Health and illness are partially determined by genetic make-ups, repetitive, unconscious and conscious choice making.
15. Wealth or the lack of wealth is determined by repetitive unconscious and conscious choice making.
16. Happiness, peace of mind, freedom and power over one's life are enabled or deleted by choice making.
17. Life is a never ending opportunity for choice making.
18. Successful choice making always occurs in the present.
19. No matter how bad things are in your life, you are a choice away for making things better.
20. The most powerful choices occur in our thinking and perceptions.
21. Choosing to think differently changes feelings and relationships.
22. People change by making different choices.
23. Permanent changes are created by courageously, attentively, emotionally and actively repeating the desired choices.
24. When you think you can't change, make a new choice and you have changed.
25. Your choices are unlimited and you will live in the environment created by your choices.

Remember, You Live within the Body, Relationships, Finances and Circumstances Created by Your Choices!

Dr. Hal

Life and Mental Fitness Coach

this post is in response to Phll Gerbyshak's call for posts regarding the theme of Choices at 100Bloggers.

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