The way we think, feel and choose changes everything in unique and wonderful ways. 

These days I am compelled by my own values, inner pushes and pulls and outer circumstances to make a choice. What will guide me? Will I let fear, the scared ego self in me, my inner child who wants to protect me, to have the final say?

My grandmother Ruth taught me something valuable. She told me that after living a full life, she was ready to leave this world with no regrets. – How is that possible? She explained, to the much younger version of myself, that when she was at the crossroads and had to make a decision, she would look ahead and ask her future self; What decision will I be more likely to regret? So, when faced with that question things can become clear. It is obvious what I need to do, even as my Ego tries to reason with me and make me “sensible”…

 

Roses come with thorns, does that diminish their beauty?

Does the cast shadow from the hats (roles) we wear blur our vision?

 

I believe most of us want to be responsible and do the right thing, but in the end, only you can decide what is right for you. I want to encourage you, as I speak to myself: “Do not let fear have the final say”. At the end of the day, let us be able to say

“I gave it my best and I gave it my all”.

 

Does this mean I will succeed? Well, that, my friend, depends on my definition of success, the same as Your success depends on what You classify as Success. 

The end result of my decisions and actions I put into the hands of Someone much greater than I. I will be at peace knowing that my choice to trust Love and Life as I journey along, was something I just “had to do”.