How about me?

Monday’s come and go but they always leave me wondering. This time the topic was:
how about me? It led to a very interesting discussion about decisions and choices we
make, the difference between the two, and what triggers them.

I particularly liked the example given by one of the participants: if you’re running a
department with only two employees, one that is an excellent professional and another
one a person that you’re friend with, and your boss urges you to fire one of them in
order to cut off costs, what would you do?

Being a professional yourself, you would decide on keeping the good employee but your
choice would have been to keep your friend.

We have all eventually agreed that the main difference between decisions and choices
lies within the nature of each: decisions are rational driven, while choices have a rather
emotional nature.

Following this meeting, I searched the Internet and found some nice quotes about these
issues that could as well summarize our discussion.

Enjoy them!!

“You are the person who has to decide, whether you’ll do it or toss it aside; you are the person who
makes up your mind, whether you’ll lead or will linger behind. Whether you’ll try for the goal that’s
afar, or just be contented to stay where you are.”

Edgar A. Guest

“You are everything that is, your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true. You are everything you
choose to be. You are as unlimited as the endless universe.”

Shad Helmstetter

“You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will
ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don’t
think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this
decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.”

Anthony Robbins

“You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.”

David Thomas

“If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from
what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.”

Robert Fritz

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Ramona Paun – august 2010