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Choice is an Everyday Activity
Even making no choice at all is still a choice.
Every single day that you are here on this planet you are making choices.
The vast majority of the things you choose are relatively mindless and mundane. When to get out of bed, what to wear, what to eat, where to go and when, and so on. Simple, frequent, daily choices you make that can, ultimately, impact your day quite a lot.
How? Because maybe what you ate made you sick. Perhaps what you are wearing someone else is wearing and you feel uncomfortable around them. Maybe you’d be more awake and better able to make decisions at work had you gotten out of bed earlier. Cause and effect.
Every action causes a reaction. If I start to scroll through posts on Facebook that means I am not doing something else. I am choosing to spend time on this thing.
When you do something subconsciously, with little or no thought, you still work from a choice you have made. The more frequently you do something the more readily it becomes a habit.
Both good and bad habits are made in this way. Scrolling across social media rather than reading something for inspiration or entertainment (even fiction is better for you than social media, frankly). Talking when you should be listening. Interrupting other people…
