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Why Choose Positivity?
Because choosing positivity empowers you.
Every day, you have choices.
Get out of bed or sleep in? Oatmeal or yogurt for breakfast? Make or order lunch? Steak or chicken for dinner? Go to bed at 10 or 11?
These choices are frequent, constant, and seemingly insignificant. But they are neither inconsequential nor insignificant.
Life is all about choices. Great or small, everything you choose impacts everything you do.
For example — let’s say you sleep in. And sleep past your alarm. Now, your morning routine is shot, you’re in a rush, and it sets a pace for the day of constant hurry and feeling — whether you are or not — behind. That one choice impacted your entire day.
Why does that matter? Because that for an entire day you felt off, out of control, and probably unbalanced. One choice changed almost every aspect of your overall day.
Many of the choices before us are relatively neutral. They are neither good nor bad, positive nor negative — they just are. The aforementioned “get out of bed or sleep in” falls into this category.
However, while the choice at hand might be neutral — the consequences likely are not. I know, for example, that on multiple occasions I chose to sleep in. More often than not…