Choices

Choices

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose."

-- Dr. Seuss

Agency, our ability to choose, can never be taken away. Even in the worst of circumstances we get to choose - choose to cooperate, choose to rebel, choose to work or to play to get out of bed or to sleep in. Granted, our options are often limited. But those limitations are always imposed by ourselves. We are often motivated by consequences. For instance, if you don't get to work on time you will lose your job. But you still get to choose. You may choose to quit, chose to find a new job, choose to negotiate a later work time or choose to arrive on time. The choice of action is ours. The consequences, however, are not. Once we make the choice, the consequences (or rewards if the consequences are good) are still ours because of the choices we make in life. So, steer yourself well because you're in the chooser seat.