Choose Your Response

When you’re focused on positive, effective and sustained life-enhancement, there is one single change that you can make, that will change everything:

Choose your response.

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A couple of days ago I received a call, from a producer at The Today Show. She asked me to appear on the show. The next day.

It was amazing and also sort of weird because just a few months earlier I had listed Appear On Morning Telly as one of my Big Goals Of The Year [yes! I too set goals and work towards them]. But still, here it was, being offered to me. Brilliant!

And so [of course] I said yes, we made plans and I hung up.

Now, before I go on, I have to explain: I am a pretty quiet kind of person. Someone who likes talking with people one-on-one. I don’t love being in the spotlight, I don’t relish public speaking and doing live telly in front of a few hundred thousand lovely breakfast-eaters is definitely not my preferred activity. But I do have a lot to share and I’m committed to living a bold, happy and fulfilling life.  [hmmm, dilemma.]

So at that very moment that I had a choice. I could freak out, call friends and family and screech that I was so excited but ohlordy!howscaryandwhatamIgoingtodo?! Or I could choose a different response.

I chose something else. I chose to see this opportunity as a life experience. Something that will help me grow and make my internal world stronger and richer.

That choice completely shifted my experience. Even as I was sitting there, hearing the producers in my ear, listening to the hosts return from ad break, feeling my heart racing I was embracing this awesome [for me] event and really living [and loving] it.

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Regardless of what is going on in it, you can choose the way you experience your world. The choice takes discipline and commitment but the results can be beautifully dramatic.

Tags: choices, courage, decision making, goals