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I Choose...

Language has a tremendous effect on life. To change your life you may want to change your language. Most of us spend much of our time saying (and thinking) things like: "I need to...", "I have to...", "I must...", or "I've got to...". This is imprisoning language. It is the language of hopelessness and despair. Furthermore, it is false! You don't need to do anything. You don't have to do anything. There is nothing you must do. There is nothing you've got to do. Now, there may of course be consequences to not doing some things. That doesn't mean you have to do them, it means you've made a choice. If you stop going to work, you may get fired. You may decide that going to work is a more helpful choice than getting fired. But it's a choice!

Change your language! Say, "I choose...". Right now, out loud say, "I have to go to work tomorrow." Now say, "I choose to go to work tomorrow." How does each statement make you feel? Do you see how saying, "I have to...", turns off your internal debate, it shuts you down. Do you see how saying, "I choose...", opens possibility. Maybe you don't choose to go to work tomorrow, maybe you'll choose to take a vacation day and go fishing. Maybe you'll choose to take the day to investigate opening your own business. Maybe you'll take the day to go get a student loan and go back to school. Or maybe you'll choose to go to work. But you'll feel far more powerful if you make this choice every day. You'll feel far wiser if you have this conversation with yourself every day.