Turn The Key
by Bert Oliva
“You can’t have your cake and eat it too.” I used to think this was a very strange statement. If I have cake, of course I’m going to eat it! Then someone explained to me that it meant you can’t have the cake still in one piece and eat it at the same time. You have to choose. And that’s the case with everything in our lives. Everything is a choice. And you must make these choices for yourself or life will make them for you.
To be successful at anything, you must make decisions continuously that benefit what you are working towards. If you don’t, your path to your desired destination will take much longer and may never come to fruition.
The funny thing about choices and human nature is that it seems we almost innately don’t want to make decisions. It’s much easier when things don’t go as planned to blame others if we didn’t make the choice ourselves. But if we constantly allow ourselves to be “victims” of others’ choices and life in general, we lose sight of ourselves and become only dull shadows of the powerful people we truly are.
So stop allowing situations and other people to make your decisions for you. Stand up on your own two feet and realize how important you are to your life. Recognize that you are in the driver’s seat of your life. Map out your route to your destination, turn the key in the ignition, and get moving in the right direction.
Live Life,
Bert Oliva
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