EVERY DECISION YOU MAKE IS LIFE CHANGING:

Every single decision you make is extremely powerful. We don’t always realize the power of our decisions until we make the wrong one, because we are often only judged (by ourselves and others) for the bad/wrong ones we make. We can be so quick to point out when someone makes a bad decision, but we (and when I say we, I mean me) don’t always give credit for the millions of little RIGHT decisions we make every day!! I’d like to take this moment to acknowledge your great decision making of choosing to open this blog post, read it and share it! J GOOD JOB! (I’d also like to praise you in advance for the next great decision you are going to make… which is forwarding my funny blog posts to the Ellen Degeneres Show and declaring me to coolest/funniest/wisest young blogger you’ve ever read and then encouraging Ellen to give me a job as a writer… correspondent..?! …a corky accountant…???) 

Think of all the decisions you made just this morning. You decided to get up and out of bed, you didn’t HAVE to get up, you chose to. You brushed your teeth (hopefully), did your hair, put your make-up on, got your kids up, got dressed (again hopefully… if clothes are optional for your career path we need to be talking about a lot bigger bad decisions you’ve made.) You chose to get you and YOUR KIDS in the car. We’ve all had those morning when you consider leaving your kids crying on the front door step, as they are refusing to get in the car because you won’t let them take the vacuum, a giant bouncy ball and a spatula with them to daycare, but you choose to sacrifice your face and kidney’s by swooping them up (kicking, screaming and all) and strapping them in the car. You choose to stop at the stop sign, go the speed limit—or at least close to it, drive to work, park in a parking space, turn off your car. Could you imagine if people didn’t decide to park in a parking space? Cars would be piled up by the entrances of buildings; accidents would be happening everywhere, insurance premiums would skyrocket!! And if you decided to not turn off your car…? Pollution would be way worse... so look at you, you crazy tree hugger—savin’ the planet by choosing to turn off your car when you aren’t driving it!! Each decisions you made this morning is life changing. Each decision had an outcome, had a consequence good or bad. (Like CPS would probably be called if you left your child crying on the front door step! And possibly a mental institution if you went to work naked, parked in the middle of the parking lot and left your car running!)

So yes, we made a million small right decisions, yet we infrequently acknowledge those things and decisions we did/made to better ourselves and others around us. Like I said earlier, it is often our wrong decisions that get us the most attention and unwanted criticisms, but without our bad decisions how would we know any better? We wouldn’t have the opportunity to learn from them, we wouldn’t grow and develop new strategies to life, new perspectives, and we wouldn’t be where we are today!  

I often find myself reliving embarrassing, even painful memories where I made REALLY bad decisions, but fail to acknowledge ways I’ve learned from them, how they have helped me grow, and how many good little decisions I have made. Ultimately, I’m on ONE path and every day I cement a brick down on that ONE path which leads me to tomorrow’s journeys. There are no such things are detours or shortcuts, it’s just our own individual journey so be thankful for each mistake, each trip your path made through crazy town (mine made a few), and each brick because the path you’ve built led you to where you are today and will lead you to even greater things tomorrow. 

Tomorrow when you wake up and walk in the bathroom to get ready, do a little happy dance! When you park and turn off your car, maybe set off a little confetti popper thingy, (but then pick up the confetti because leaving that mess would be a bad decision) celebrate all the little good decision you make and feel empowered that all your decisions determine the placement of the next brick on your path of this crazy thing called LIFE!