We don’t always do what we want to do.
At times - most of the time, even - there are things we feel we have to do.
Take care of the kids.
Pay the bills.
Go to work.
Clean our homes.
We often look at such tasks with quite a bit of displeasure.
We really don’t want to do them.
But we do them anyway.
Because we have to.
We don’t have a choice.
Or do we?
After all, we could choose not to take care of the kids.
We could stop paying the bills.
We could skip work.
We could let trash accumulate.
However, such choices have consequences.
Consequences that we find more unfavorable than doing the work.
So, really, it’s not that we have to do these things.
We choose to.
We see our options.
We choose one thing we don’t enjoy over something else we’d enjoy even less.
We’re still making the choice.
We didn’t really “have to” do anything.
Consider all the things you feel you have to do.
Do you actually "have to"?
You probably have other options.
You might not like those options.
You're still making a choice.
The more you tell yourself you "have to" do, the more power over yourself and your life you give up.
Take ownership.
Take responsibility.
Take control.
Sure, this may only be a matter of perspective.
A matter of perception.
But isn’t our perception our reality?
Don’t we live in the world we shape inside our heads?
Why not shape a world in which we’re calling the shots?
A world in which we’re doing the best we can?
We always have that choice.
You always have that choice.
You are worthy of that kind of life.
You’ve got this.
