Let me start with a quote, “You are free to choose, but you are not free from the consequence of your choice.”
We’re thinking about consequences: good consequences and bad consequences. There are both in this life. When we have situations that arise like the Covid 19 or situations in our business, or challenges in our family or health situations, all kinds of things are constantly combating at us.
When we have those times, if we’re in the best of health; in the most rested moment, we make what we would consider possibly to be the best decision possible. And then there are consequences that follow based on those decisions. When sometimes those challenges and things come into our life at that exact moment, we may not be at our best and we might make a different decision than we might have made before. And the consequences that follow are thus different.
I want to encourage you as we look forward. Currently, I keep wiping my face only because I’m out in the woods. I am taking time to recharge me. I’m out hiking and walking. I love being out in the woods. Obviously, my dog loves being out in the woods and hiking and walking, although I can’t go far, and I can’t do much. I just come and I just sit. Oftentimes, like right now, I’m just sitting, I’m resting and just enjoying the solitude and the quiet. And it recharges me and I’m not scaling mountaintops and things of that nature like I used to in days past.
But I am doing things that I can help me be the best me. So, when those challenges come and we have those choices and the consequences are now different, and we might be a little unhappy with the consequences of them, a lot of things are out of our control. And oftentimes, you’ll hear people whining and complaining about the consequences of those choices that they made.
Like with the situation of the COVID 19th recently. You see, we’re blessed to live in a beautiful part of the Pacific Northwest. And this sound of the waterfall and the beauty that surrounds us encourages me and restores me and lifts me up, so I seek refuge in it. Although we do not control the consequences or even usually know all of those consequences, we can decide how we will handle them knowing it was our choice.
We don’t always appreciate those consequences. But I’m sure you’ve heard many a person in your life, maybe your grandmother, your mom, your dad’s, uncle, somebody else, maybe just a good friend who commented how it is those challenges in those trials and the consequences of them that made us who we are as individuals.
The hardships and struggles that companies and entrepreneurs go through make them and evolve their business into a better business. We as individuals have the choice to do the same and become more of who we were created to be or be victims to what life throws at us. The choice is always yours.
