Often, when we think we have a difficult decision to make, we have little decision to make at all.
We’ll stand on the cusp of thinking that we can take 1 path or another and that the impact will have an extraordinary effect on our life and in fact all along our choice is clear and we were never likely to make a different decision in another direction.
In other sides of our life we think we have no choice and that we have to grind on; on the same pathway, never deviating until we get to some imagined summit or pinnacle.
In the second of these scenarios money is always one of the major considerations and factors.
If I had saved half of the money that I’d earned from when I was age 22 and safely invested it in something with moderate growth, I would be extraordinarily wealthy about now and would have any number of choices moving forwards about the way I wanted to live my life.
It turned out that when I was 22 I decided to spend everything that I got, telling myself a story that I ‘deserved it’ and that’s what it was there for.
Telling myself that I ‘couldn’t take it with me’ or that my status journey meant that I had to buy things or stuff which proved that I was good or in a position of power.
If I had chosen a different path, I would be in a different place but that in fact is one of the choices that we thought we never had.
The jobs that we work in, the relationships that we have, the friendships that we keep and the influences that we allow to take over our lives (particularly our information inputs) are always a choice that we fail to understand as clearly as we should.
The clever people who allow themselves the opportunity to step back and to questions the paths they’re on and the choice that they’d made and whether a different route would make a difference are probably the ones who are the most content in the end.
Blog Post Number - 2781
Leave a comment