Have you ever had to make a decision among your options and you just couldn’t choose? Have you agonized over your options, finally making a decision and then spent more fretful hours second-guessing yourself? Have you ever made a choice that seemed like a no-brainer and then you got unexpected and unpleasant results? I think most of us have experienced some, if not all, of these aspects of making choices. And this is by no means the universe of all possible experiences we can have with making decisions or choosing among our options. I’ll spend some time in this blog exploring different ways we might go about making choices, but here’s the spoiler alert. No matter what we choose, we can’t get it wrong! Keep reading to find out why I can make that bold statement.

What happens when we are faced with a choice of doing something we know would be in our best interests, but making that choice would take us out of our comfort zone, out of our current ‘normal’ pattern? We can be talking about procrastination, eating habits, aggressive driving or anything that we want to change. We are such creatures of habit! When we try to do something new, it seems like our old habits fight for their very existence. We avoid the unknown, choosing the safety of our experience. So how do we ever create new habits? What does it take to step out into the unknown and make a different choice? Even the fact that we believe in our minds that the new behavior is going to be good for us and will make our lives better and happier doesn’t seem to be enough to move us forward.