On Choices: you’re constantly choosing

Most people would refer to choices as being the exercise of establishing a direction to deal with a certain issue at hand. It may be choosing to lose body fat, to deal with the issue of not enjoying how we currently look, for instance.

With this choice then, would come a certain expectation of behaviours that need to be adhered to in order to support that same choice. In the previous example, that would be choosing the courgette over the spaghetti for example. This is definitely an important practice to set direction and ensure we’re aiming for what we chose to be important.

But this is not the only type of choice you’re exercising and in order to perform full awareness and ownership of the daily small choices that align with the goals set on the big choices, consider that some choices will generate negative equity.

Going back to our previous example of fat loss, this would materialize when you go to an ice cream stand and get the biggest and baddest of them all. In this situation, you’re not just choosing to have an ice cream. You’re also choosing yourself out of choosing the silhouette you said you wanted. If about training and you decide not to go, you’re choosing to become weak. If about not studying, you’re choosing to have bad grades.

Thinking about choices and the negative equity they can bring to other things you said you wanted, is the best practice to ensure you’re accountable to yourself, that you’re fully aware of the consequences of what you choose and what’s getting affected or not getting done as a direct result of them.