[[:encoded, "Today we are going to talk about Choose Wisely: Choose Life.\n\nThe choices you make every minute of every day influence the life you live and the person you are. Make them wisely.\n\nI can choose to eat the bowl of ice cream, knowing I’ll have to spend an extra 30 minutes or more on the treadmill tomorrow, or I can choose to forego the ice cream and feel sorry for myself for at least the next hour or so.\n\nHeck! I choose to eat the ice cream anyway, knowing that I may as well have rubbed the entire bowl straight on my belly, but also accepting the fact that the price I will pay for 2 minutes of glorious ice cream today is 30 minutes or more of hard push on the treadmill tomorrow.\n\nNevertheless, I made the choice and I take full responsibility for making a choice that may not have necessarily been the right one.\n\nThat’s what making choices is all about – taking full responsibility for our actions.\n\nAs Ann Weber, a psychologist from North Carolina says, “Choice is uncomfortable, because it makes us feel responsible. The advantage of indecision is being blameless, but the disadvantage is a life out of control.” \n\nWe talk about 4 personality types who avoid decision making. Do you fall into one of these categories?\n\nConsider this: life doesn’t just happen. The life we choose to lead is dictated by the choices we’ve made in the past, those we make today and those we’ll make in the future.\n\nTake advantage of the complimentary special report on Keys to Working Less, Making More Money, and Having a More Balanced Life by going to www.AccountabilityCoach.com. To help keep you focused on these activities that produce the results you want, subscribe to The Accountability Coach Blog at www.AccountabilityCoachBlog.com. Invest in the 30-day Goal Achievement program so you can begin achieving your goals in the timeframe you want so you can have the life you desire. Get started by going to www.AccountabilityCoach.com and review all the resources and tools available to you. \n\nAim for what you want each and every day! \nAnne Bachrach\nThe Accountability Coach™\nAuthor of Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule and Live Life with No Regrets. Get your copies today."]]
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(upbeat music) - Hello, and welcome to the Accountability Coach podcast, but we will discuss topics, ideas, questions, and issues related to having a totally balanced and successful life. This is Anne Bakrak. Today we're going to talk about choose wisely, choose life. The choices you make every minute of every day influence the life you live and the person you are. Make them wisely. Will I have that bowl of almond mocha ice cream or not? Almond mocha ice cream is my all time favorite. So the choice is harrowing. I can choose to eat the bowl of ice cream, knowing that I'll have to spend an extra 30 minutes, 60 minutes or even an hour and a half or more on the treadmill tomorrow. Or I can choose to forego the ice cream and feel sorry for myself for at least the next hour or so. Heck, I choose to eat the ice cream anyway, knowing that I may as well have rubbed the entire bowl straight onto my belly, but also accepting the fact that I pay the price and the price I'll have to pay for just two minutes of eating gloriously tasting ice cream today is probably 30 or 60 minutes or more of more hard work on a treadmill tomorrow. Nevertheless, I made the choice and I take full responsibility for making a choice that may not have necessarily been the right one for me. That's what making choices is all about, taking full responsibility for our actions. As Ann Weber, a psychologist from North Carolina says, choice is uncomfortable because it makes us feel responsible. The advantage of indecision is being blameless, but the disadvantage is a life out of control. Why can't I make choices? Well, a research team from Berkeley University in California identified four personality types who avoid decision making. Do you fall into one of these categories? Perfectionists are people who avoid making choices altogether rather than risk making a mistake. Non-compromizers are people who want it all and feel compromised if they have to give up anything. I'm sorry, freedom lovers are those who confronted with several options don't want to commit to just one. They want their options to remain open. Dependents are people who trust others' opinions more than they trust their own. The common denominator among all these personality types is a lack of self-esteem. Although lack of self-esteem can often be traced back to childhood behavioral conditioning, as an adult, you have the power to choose whether you want to live a life huddled at the back of the pack, not brave enough to stand up and be counted, or you can choose to live with exuberance, joy, and the supreme knowledge that you make a difference in the world. Making choices that matter. Whether we like it or not, we all make choices all of the time, every minute, pretty much of the day. Consciously and subconsciously, hard decisions and easy decisions. Choices that not only affect us, but those around us, life altering decisions, and choices that in hindsight took us down perhaps the wrong path. But hey, that's life. As human beings, it's often easier to choose the path of least resistance, after all. We are creatures of habit. So if it's habitual for you to cocoon yourself inside your comfort zone, then it's highly likely you will always choose the soft option. But living a life of quiet desperation is a choice. And people who choose to live life in this way have to take on the responsibility for making that particular choice. On the other hand, there are those of us who accept that making choices isn't always easy and isn't always comfortable, but want to live a life ripe with new opportunities and new visions and new adventures and new challenges. Challenges allow us to grow and learn from the experiences that we encounter. Consider this, life doesn't just happen. The life we choose to lead is dictated by the choices we've made in the past, those that we make today and those that we will make in the future. To live an extraordinary life, we need to understand and focus on what we want to achieve and then make choices that will ultimately lead us to the goals we want to attain. Well, my hope for our time together is that you've got some value and an idea or two that will help you be even more successful, personally and professionally. To help keep you focused on the activities that produce the results you want, subscribe to the Accountability Coach blog at accountabilitycoachblog.com. Invest in the 30-day goal achievement self-study program so you can begin achieving your goals in the timeframe that you want so you can have the life that you truly desire. Get started by going to www.accountabilitycoach.com and review all of the resources available to you. Aim for what you want each and every day. Until next time, make it a great day, today and every day. Thanks for listening. (upbeat music) Let me remind you that this recording is protected by copyright law and unauthorized distribution and copying is prohibited. (upbeat music) (upbeat music)
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