Millions of decisions

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Good morning I hope this finds you well and looking forward to another day on this heaven we call earth.
 
Following on from yesterday's discussion about going back to basics, i'd like to talk to you about the decisions you have made today. What do you mean you haven't made any? Of course you have, hundreds of them.
 
Did you get up when the alarm went off or did you hit the snooze button?
Did you get up and go for a walk or stagger to the kitchen for a cup of caffeinated beverage to wake you up?
Did you have a shower or are you smelling like a water buffalo on a hot day?
Did you put on clean clothes or - see point above?
Did you have a healthy breakfast? Or did you get up so late you didn't even manage to grab that coffee and clean your teeth?
Did you pack a healthy lunch or are you going to pick something up from down town?
Did you stay calm on the trip to work or are you filled with anger for those inconsiderate drivers who cut you up every time you left a sizeable gap. Or are you one of those inconsiderate drivers?
 
Every day we make millions of tiny decisions. Each decision that we make impacts on the next decision that we are then faced with. No time for breakfast, usually means you are starving by 9am and what happens, you find the nearest high fat, high carb thing you can find and eat it, usually telling yourself that you will cut back on cakes, biscuits and pastry tomorrow....what happens then? 9.30 and you are hungry again....
 
Your decision to sit and watch a 2 hour movie with a beer and chips, means that your plan to work on your goals this evening goes out of the window.
 
Your decision to plan your day by no means prevents you from having a lack of choices, when in fact your decision to plan means that your choices can be informed ones. So when thinking about what you want to do, see and be, then you need to know that the plans that you make, and the choices you are faced with impacts on the next decision and the next decision and the next decision that you make.
 
Decisions, decisions, decisions we make millions of them over a course of a life time, each tiny decision may not seem like much, but these have a far greater impact on your life than those so called momentous decisions we are sometimes faced with.
 
My uncle is quite ill, he has made a lifetime of poor choices with regards to food, and now after one triple heart bypass, and failing to make better food choices he is worse off now than he was before the first operation. Doctors have told him there's not much he can do except wait to die. Each tiny decision he made to eat fried food, and far too much. Each decision he made not to go for a walk and drink too much beer on a daily basis means that now, when faced with the momentous decision of vegetables or potato chips, creamtion or buriel it seems to be sinking in. Yet these tiny decisions he made, didn't seem like they were bad decisions at the time. However, a lifetime of tiny bad decisions means that he will not live to see his next birthday.
 
Never assume those tiny decisions won't make a difference, because they can be the difference between life and death, success or failure, happiness or sadness.
 
I wish for you a life time of informed decisions and excellent choices.  
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