Grateful For Life's Choices

My husband and I have recently been making lots of decisions lately—more than usual, it seems. Some of the decisions we’re making are big life ones, some are little decisions like what to buy for Christmas. Then there are vacation decisions, money decisions…the list goes on and on. ‘Tis the season of life choices!

Some choices we make in life affect our lives for years to come. Others may really not seem that important in the grand scheme of things. But whether the choice we are making is a BIG one or not so big, we often go through the decision process in a similar way.

When making choices, I sometimes act as if there’s a “right” answer and if I think hard enough, I can solve the puzzle. Perhaps this perspective is a throw-back from my days in school when every question on a test, you either got right or wrong.

As we focus on letting go, something I’d like to let go of is the perspective of looking through the world (and more specifically my own life) through a lens of black and white. The older I become, the more I realize there really is no right or wrong, just different experiences depending on which paths we choose. I believe it’s important to tune in and listen to what our souls want us to do AND it’s also important to realize in this wonderful adventure we call life, our choices aren’t so much about wrong or right, but simply giving ourselves different conditions with which to have fun.

In celebration of this month’s theme, I am grateful for the many tests I’ve passed thanks to looking at life as if there is a “right” and “wrong” AND I am now ready to no longer rule my life based on this perspective but rather accept that life is a rainbow of experiences—What a true gift that is!

When we stop judging our choices the way a teacher would but instead allow ourselves to be grateful and start having fun with the infinite opportunities life offers us, the world seems to soften. Openings are created. We start enjoying the process of choosing rather being so focused on the result of our decisions.

Today I am grateful for all the risks I’ve taken that have turned out okay, and all the opportunities that keep coming my way!

How do you make decisions? What is your soul saying “yes” to? What are you grateful for?

What would make your life more colorful? Choose it. Today!