The Power To Choose
Malik Ahmad
May 28, 2006
In today's global, social, and economic climates, we are bombarded with thousands of options. How should we discipline our children? What religion is right for us? Are we going to work for someone else or become an entrepreneur? Many of our choices are made subconsciously with little thought and some of our choices come from hours of contemplation and reflection.
We have all made decisions that affected our daily lives. Ponder this for a moment, every choice you make affects your life and the lives of those closest to you! For example; many of us work well over 40 hours a week, this is a choice that affects us on an individual level and this also affects our friends, family and community. This is a choice that we easily rationalize by saying that we need to buy food, pay our rent/mortgage, and support our families. All of these excuses are good reasons and I certainly believe them to be true. But, it has probably been a dog's age since you last considered the down side of spending so much time at work.
Our children are falling woefully behind at school, they tend to suffer from low self-esteem (eating disorders, becoming bullies, or being bullied), our children and peers are being diagnosed and medicated at an alarming rate, and let us not speak of the ever increasing prison population. These things are evidence of an overwhelmed and over worked society.
The power to choose can off set these social ills. We can choose to reduce our hours at work, we can choose to spend more time with our children, we can become political and help our fellow man, but we do not choose to do so because we need to provide for ourselves and our families.
You can choose to spend more time with your children! You can choose to spend more time with your spouse and loved ones, You can choose to take your life back. We all have difficult choices to make. Choose yourself, choose your family, choose to be a good citizen, and choose to work for yourself. Be the master of your own time and finances. The world needs you to succeed, through the power to choose we can have everything we desire.
We have all made decisions that affected our daily lives. Ponder this for a moment, every choice you make affects your life and the lives of those closest to you! For example; many of us work well over 40 hours a week, this is a choice that affects us on an individual level and this also affects our friends, family and community. This is a choice that we easily rationalize by saying that we need to buy food, pay our rent/mortgage, and support our families. All of these excuses are good reasons and I certainly believe them to be true. But, it has probably been a dog's age since you last considered the down side of spending so much time at work.
Our children are falling woefully behind at school, they tend to suffer from low self-esteem (eating disorders, becoming bullies, or being bullied), our children and peers are being diagnosed and medicated at an alarming rate, and let us not speak of the ever increasing prison population. These things are evidence of an overwhelmed and over worked society.
The power to choose can off set these social ills. We can choose to reduce our hours at work, we can choose to spend more time with our children, we can become political and help our fellow man, but we do not choose to do so because we need to provide for ourselves and our families.
You can choose to spend more time with your children! You can choose to spend more time with your spouse and loved ones, You can choose to take your life back. We all have difficult choices to make. Choose yourself, choose your family, choose to be a good citizen, and choose to work for yourself. Be the master of your own time and finances. The world needs you to succeed, through the power to choose we can have everything we desire.
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