the knowledge about actions that are preventing you from achieving your desired state. Knowing those bad actions (or bad choices) you have been taking as well as still are taking, will arm you with the right knowledge about the dreadful consequences such bad choices entail. Being aware of each choice you make, especially the bad, negative choices, will motivate you to make good, positive choices in place of the bad, negative ones you have been making so far. So, what you need to do starting right NOW is- track every aspect of your eating (aka nutritional) habits plus your exercising (aka strength/endurance training) habits. You are going to track every single bite, every single gulp your take without fail. At the same time, you will track …show more content…
You will be surprised by little things that are leading you astray, so that once you notice those little, bad actions, you will be able to correct (i.e. adjust or regulate) your actions that will lead you towards the right direction. Those self-correcting (i.e. self-adjusting or self-regulating) actions you take in place of bad actions will slowly but surely take you to the place you desire. Also, once you have tracked every action of yours for a considerable length of time, then what you have tracked on a daily basis will provide you with maximum awareness of what you are doing, the good effects as well as the bad effects of every action you take. Just remember, you have to WRITE/RECORD EVERY SINGLE ACTION on DAILY BASIS (even if that action seems most insignificant) in any area for which you are seeking improvement. You might get the idea that writing or recording every action seems quite an ordinary task. What you would realize later on is that this ordinary task has extraordinary benefits, once you stick with it for the long …show more content…
What we are today is the direct result of choices that we have accumulated so far. What we will be tomorrow is going to be the direct consequence of what choices we are going to accumulate plus which choices we are going to dispose of, from NOW onwards. Our choices help us greatly or hurt us gravely. Your choices are the building blocks of behavior which forms your habits. Every choice you make is a block that is used to build the structure of your life. Its truly up to you to make sure that the blocks you are adding (i.e. the choices you are making), to construct the structure of your life, are of superior quality. If they are superior, then your entire structure of life will be robust plus it will be sturdy. If the blocks you are adding i.e. (the choices you are making) are bad or they are of inferior quality, then your entire structure of life will be based on weak foundation that is vulnerable to damage or harm. Your life’s building will experience vulnerability to damage or harm due to unfavorable, adverse events only because of its frail foundation and shaky structure. Thus, choose your blocks, I mean, your actions, wisely since you are the sole architect of your life. If you make poor/bad choices, it often leads you to making tough/difficult choices later on. There are some choices that will lead to undesirable outcomes, guaranteed! You know deep in your heart what those choices are as well as how ugly
Everyone makes at least one decision in their lifetime and it’s not always a good choice or decision. Some are small, domestic, and innocuous. Others are more important, affecting people’s lives, livelihoods, and well-being. Many of the simple decisions people make like what color pants they will wear today or whether or not they want spaghetti for dinner, etc. are often automatic or based on their preference at a given moment. Inevitably, we make mistakes along the way. So as you look back at your life and think about some of the poor choices you have made, you might find yourself wondering exactly why you made those decisions that seem so poor now in retrospect. Why did you marry someone who was all wrong for
If you like this method, I highly recommend that you take up journaling! By journaling every day, you can clearly see how you feel about something, what is working and what is not through consistent praise or complaints, and tweak your decisions to work for you.
“Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn’t all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.” Henry Bromel talks about how maybe things aren’t as great looking back rather than in the actual moment. We go through life making dozens of choices. Some made in a blink of an eye, others made after a few years of pondering. Some of our choices give us good fortune. Others creates situation we wish were never made in the first place. Some bad decisions in life can be avoid by taking the time to think about the consequences before deciding to change or avoid a decision all together. Many characters in
“Fate is nothing, but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence”, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
both good and bad,become the navigation system for the choices we make in our lives. These
Choices define people. What they choose to do and how they choose to act around people shows who they truly are. Every choice has its consequence. And every choice has a ripple effect that can either positively or negatively affect someone. While the choice is made, consequences are not usually thought through. A bad choice can cause a person to live in regret evermore. In the play The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare illustrates a great tale of choices. The choices that are made affect everyone and leaves no one unscathed. Choices leave a trail and can impact many people. One choice can determine the fate of many others. Lives are precious and fragile. Caution and thought must be put into action before caving into impulses. Bassanio, Portia, and Shylock are all prime examples of how choices can affect people’s surroundings significantly.
Life is like a diet; if the individual does things correctly then he or she will be satisfied and pleased with the results. But, if the individual starts to cheat the diet and want faster results than what he or she is getting then he or she will not get the desired results. When people do not get the desired result they can make radical or unhealthy decisions that will not lead them to their goal but push them further away. Just like a person may be tempted to cheat their diet and eat a fun-sized candy because “it won’t hurt,” in life people cheat and make things out of lust or irrationality which ends up harming them. In A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry uses dialogues and allusions to show that when ambitions are achieved through irrational decisions and betrayal they can lead to an undesired life.
...world gives us, or do we form our own? For each of us, our binary opposite choices will be slightly different, but we will encounter them for the rest of our lives. We must determine early what our choice will be, so that when these choices do come, our answers will be determined by the matrix we have created. It is when we are comfortable with the reality we have defined that we pass to the upper levels of mental cognition and self-awareness. Whether it is choosing the person we are going to marry, deciding what our career will be, or finding a religion that we feel is right, we must choose the matrix that we have built on our own thoughts and interpretations. Only then will we know ourselves, and feel that we have made the best decisions for our lives and our system of existence.
In addition,I learned that in order to have self control you must possess self-awareness, which is “the ability to realize what we are doing as we do it, and understand why we are doing it.”(McGonigal 20). Self awareness is the initial phase in creating what you need .It is the center of your consideration, your feelings, responses, identity and behavior.In addition,it permits you to see the controls of your behavior in order to make the improvements you need.The text explains that you can improve your self control by tracking yourself. For instance, “After dance I was tired, so I decided to buy candy to energize me and when I got home, I realized I did not completely finish my homework”(WillPower Challenge Track Your WillPower Challenges 11/30/15). Tracking my choices helped me realize, that when I am tired or exhausted mentally and/or physically, I tend to indulge in candy and procrastinate in the most important things I have to do.Subsequently, I understood in depth that self-control is like a muscle, it deteriorates over time. The more you try to strengthen your willpower, you may be weakening your self control because of the amount of energy
Imagine sitting around a poker table, awaiting anxiously for the dealer to deal out the next cards, knowing that if you receive a good hand you will win. To your dismay, you stare in shock at the “bad” hand you received. However, it’s not necessarily the hand that is bad, but how you play the hand that can determine your fate. The same goes for life. In life, you will always be dealt good hands and bad hands, and sometimes, there is even a brick wall attached to these cards that symbolize the problems and struggles that accompany these cards. Even if you have a bad hand, if you play your cards the right way, the bad hand can transform into winning, successful hand. In The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, one of the life lessons he advocates is, “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand” (17). Moreover, there will always be a brick wall, or challenges, in the cards we were dealt, and according to Pausch, we possess the power to rip down the wall and to deal with how we react to the cards we are dealt.
As we all know, every time we try to pursue our quest for personal development, often times we fail because of our weak self-discipline, especially if the things we're trying to change about ourselves are very tempting to do. So in the middle of our quest, we give in to the temptation and end up failing. So in order to
People inherently have choices to make that guide them through their lives, which can be influenced by outside people and decisions, but there is never a chance to not choose where you will go. Ultimately, each person has to make a choice to move forward in their life, and sometimes there is never a good choice, just a less bad one to make. A situation is reached because of one’s previous choices, not because one’s fate is resolute and already decided how you end up. That is decided by the route the individual chooses to take. There is always a choice.
and commitment. I must constantly look at where I am now and evaluate where I
Human nature is about free will, and using one’s free will for good acts. We know free will exists because living things are being changed day after day. Any act, from walking across a room to deciding to eat a meal, is because of free will. We are given free will and with that, the ability to create our own, unique path in life. Free will provides human beings with freedom, judgement, and responsibility. Every human being is born with the capability to live a good, just life. However it is just as possible to live an immoral life led by bad choices. This notion of endless options in life is made possible by God’s gift of free will. No two human lives will ever be the same, because no two people will ever have the exact same experiences their entire lives. Every human being is shaped by experience, which comes from our actions, which are results of free will.
One simple consideration that can change the course of how people think about their approach to life is, the examination of the influences that they have on other people’s lives. An individual could also look outwards and analyze the impact that other people have on that individual’s life. One should also self-reflect and search for how their thoughts and actions craft a pathway towards their own destiny. The statement by Socrates, “the unexamined life is not worth living,” is an interesting statement that requires a considerable amount of analysis.