Welcome to Powered by Choice Coaching...Discover your inner resources to Fuel your Growth, Ignite your Potential and Achieve new Heights!
It's good to have you here. This is the introduction page of the "Powered by Choice Coaching" blog. My desire is to create this as a place to which you'll often return. This is where I want to bring you to explore new thoughts, ideas and perspectives. I hope it will become a place you turn to feed your hungry soul.
I'm looking forward to receiving ideas and suggestions from my readers. I'm curious to know, what do you like? What do you want more of? And I promise, if you take time to send your comments, I'll take time to consider and acknowledge them.
I'd like to introduce you to one of my favorite topics, CHOICE. Take a few moments and read how choice puts you in the driver seat of your life.
CHOICE...
“It is our choices Harry that show what we truly are, far more
than our abilities!”
--Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of
Wizardry
I love this word, choice. “Actually”, it’s not the word I love. It’s what the word represents that I love. To me it represents the power and control that put me in the driver seat of my life. What do I mean by that? I mean, it is through choice I get to create the life I want and live the life I choose. For example, I have the option to choose the “best or most desirable part”. It could be with something as simple as choosing what piece of cake I’ll eat. Will it be the piece with all the frosting or the one in the middle with the least? I love frosting. It’s the part that makes cake taste so good. That’s the “best part” to me. That’s the piece I choose.
What about the “act of choosing something or somebody”? How does that put you in the driver seat of your life? This issue reminds me about relationships in life. Do we have preferences for those we’ll have relationships with in our lives? Yes, we do. We don’t have to be friends with anybody not even family members. We decide how much time we’re going to spend or not spend with other people. So what about the people in your life where you don’t have control such as, co-workers. Do you have any choice? You might say “no, I have no choice. I don’t want to have anything to do with him but I have to work with him so I can’t avoid him.” Where’s the choice in this? The choice is in replacing the “have to” with a “choose to”. You’re probably thinking, “but, I don’t choose to work with him”. Let’s say, as an example, your job depends on you working with this person and you want to keep your job. That’s where the choice enters the picture. You’ve chosen to keep your job and your job requires you work with this person; you’ve made the choice to keep your job and work with this person. We could take this much farther and discuss how you can choose to learn to like the person or tolerate him or whatever you need to do to be able to work with him. The point is you have a choice including the one we started with, “I don’t want to have anything to do with him”. You can choose to stay in that perspective or choose another; it's your decision; your choice!
Living from a place of choice gives us freedom; we become unstuck, less frustrated, and empowered by the realization we have the ability to choose between different thoughts, actions, responses, feelings and more. The possibilities are endless.
What will you choose? To be stuck in the passenger seat giving someone else responsibility for where your life will take you or in the driver seat where you choose where, how and with whom you’ll follow your journey?
Karen McClaskey
www.poweredbychoicecoaching.com
770.313.5740
I'm looking forward to receiving ideas and suggestions from my readers. I'm curious to know, what do you like? What do you want more of? And I promise, if you take time to send your comments, I'll take time to consider and acknowledge them.
I'd like to introduce you to one of my favorite topics, CHOICE. Take a few moments and read how choice puts you in the driver seat of your life.
CHOICE...
“It is our choices Harry that show what we truly are, far more
than our abilities!”
--Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of
Wizardry
I love this word, choice. “Actually”, it’s not the word I love. It’s what the word represents that I love. To me it represents the power and control that put me in the driver seat of my life. What do I mean by that? I mean, it is through choice I get to create the life I want and live the life I choose. For example, I have the option to choose the “best or most desirable part”. It could be with something as simple as choosing what piece of cake I’ll eat. Will it be the piece with all the frosting or the one in the middle with the least? I love frosting. It’s the part that makes cake taste so good. That’s the “best part” to me. That’s the piece I choose.
What about the “act of choosing something or somebody”? How does that put you in the driver seat of your life? This issue reminds me about relationships in life. Do we have preferences for those we’ll have relationships with in our lives? Yes, we do. We don’t have to be friends with anybody not even family members. We decide how much time we’re going to spend or not spend with other people. So what about the people in your life where you don’t have control such as, co-workers. Do you have any choice? You might say “no, I have no choice. I don’t want to have anything to do with him but I have to work with him so I can’t avoid him.” Where’s the choice in this? The choice is in replacing the “have to” with a “choose to”. You’re probably thinking, “but, I don’t choose to work with him”. Let’s say, as an example, your job depends on you working with this person and you want to keep your job. That’s where the choice enters the picture. You’ve chosen to keep your job and your job requires you work with this person; you’ve made the choice to keep your job and work with this person. We could take this much farther and discuss how you can choose to learn to like the person or tolerate him or whatever you need to do to be able to work with him. The point is you have a choice including the one we started with, “I don’t want to have anything to do with him”. You can choose to stay in that perspective or choose another; it's your decision; your choice!
Living from a place of choice gives us freedom; we become unstuck, less frustrated, and empowered by the realization we have the ability to choose between different thoughts, actions, responses, feelings and more. The possibilities are endless.
What will you choose? To be stuck in the passenger seat giving someone else responsibility for where your life will take you or in the driver seat where you choose where, how and with whom you’ll follow your journey?
Karen McClaskey
www.poweredbychoicecoaching.com
770.313.5740
