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Give Up, Push Through, Or Find Another Way?
No matter the obstacles, you always have a choice.
Life is seldom simple. Very rarely do you get to go from point ‘A’ to point ‘B’ smoothly and obstacle free. And every time you come across challenges and obstacles in your life, you can give up, push through, or try another way.
That doesn’t always feel true. There are plenty of times when it feels like you’re stuck, trapped, and without recourse.
The trouble is, you always have choices — but they’re not always welcome, good, or desirable choices. When choosing between the lesser of two evils, a bad or worse situation, or degrees of loss — it feels like there’s no true choice being made.
Why is that? I think sometimes it comes from messages that choices should always have grandiose impact and effect.
But no matter what the situation is, when you choose, you decide on change.
Yet even when what you’re choosing between is poor and less-than-desirable, you’re still empowered when you choose.
That’s because not choosing always disempowers you.
What is empowerment?
It’s too easy to take the meaning of being empowered as being given power by another.
