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It's All About Choices, Choices, and More Choices
Original Publication Date:
February 2009
Today arrives like clockwork. It comes to us very clean—perfect in many respects. A blank slate in time that quietly stands between yesterday and tomorrow, today looks to us to bring the present to life. From the moment our eyes open and a deliberate breath is drawn, it's our chance to choose. It's about choices. The day starts and ends with choices of some sort. Think of it. Think of the whole host of choices you make from start to finish and everything in between. Each and every choice we make takes us closer to or farther from the purpose of our being. Whether we make conscious, responsible choices, or unconscious, thoughtless choices, each choice is one of intention. It's our higher self, our inner voice, that doesn't emanate from the head, but speaks from the soul, that distinguishes the two.
The decisions you make along with the actions you take are the means by which you evolve on this Earth. Not everyone is on the same rung of the ladder. Not everyone gets it. Not yet, anyway. That's okay and is as it should be. Not everyone is ready to make the choices necessary to transform humanity. But some of us are. There is the body, the form, the part of you that exists and will die within time, and then there is the soul—the part of you that is immortal. That is where the power lies—the authentic power that is manifest in the soul. So bring on the choices of today. Decide how it is you choose to live and learn. The choice is up to you.
Pz's Pointers on Choices
1. Oprah's 40 pounds of pain
It's no secret that Oprah's ups and downs with weight have been an on-going battle throughout her career. She partnered with a personal trainer in 1993 and by 1996 thought her roller-coaster weight saga was over. For some years now she has managed to maintain a relatively ideal size, from her once top weight of 237lbs.—give or take a few pounds here and there. That is until lately. She has gained 40lbs. since 2006 when she weighed 160. Her scale was reading 200 again. She has had some intervening medical issues involving the thyroid and medication which added another layer of insult to the already injured situation. On the stage in Vegas with Tina Turner and Cher, she was embarrassed and felt like a "fat cow." Standing next to two vibrant and energetic divas, ages 68 and 61, she wanted to disappear. This was her bottom—her lowest point. Recently she wrote, "I didn't just fall off the wagon. I let the wagon fall on me. I didn't follow my own fundamental rule of taking care of self first." Oprah has wandered off course, gained back the weight, and has rallied her troops to assist her in climbing out from under the wagon. Yes, even Oprah realizes she has talked the talk and not always walked the walk. She is, after all, one of us. That might be hard for some to put in perspective considering who Oprah has become and all she has achieved. Still, her money and fame and resources and status aren't a ticket to fulfillment on a deeper level. One can only ponder what it is to actually be Oprah and how ego could play a role in artificially meeting her needs. Of course, Oprah's problems with weight aren't about weight at all—never have been. Finally, it seems, she is looking inward to the origin of the problem. As powerful as Oprah is on the world scene she continues to struggle to fill in the empty powerless places within her. She has made some obvious poor choices as far as her overall well-being for a while now. The results of those choices are apparent to us and painful to Oprah. She's decidedly making better choices, more responsible choices, more conscious choices today. Hopefully, these choices will have the desired outcome she's imagining for herself. All she can do is try and give it her best. All we can do is be our best and, in so doing, pull for her as she embarks on a different leg of her journey, one choice at a time.
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