In any situation we always have a choice.
Always.
We might have a choice on the action we can take, the meaning we give, or our emotional response…
We might kid ourselves that we have no choice, but we know that’s a lie.
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms —to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”
Dr Viktor Frankyl
Viktor Frankyl, an Austrian Jewish psychiatrist, learnt this in the Nazi concentration camps.
It’s worth remembering this so that we make our choice consciously.
If you keep saying ‘the bad guy won’ and judging everyone who supports them as an idiot, then you are playing right into the ‘good vs evil’ fallacy.
At the South Island Show Jumping Champs late last year, my daughters won the classes they were entered in.
A while ago we were at a horse show. Zara and I walked the course, and I read the jump off and told Zara what it was.
Observing many people and many businesses over time, I’ve observed two factors within your control that lead to much great returns.
Every morning, I meditate with Ernie resting his head on my lap. It’s a special time.