Life is all about choices. Every day, every hour, every minute, every second. Life throws choices at us. Some, are out of our control. Others, and most of them, come up based on choices we have made in the past. Whether that past be five years, or five seconds.
Choices like what to have for breakfast are mundane and of our own choosing. The only complication that can arise when having to make that choice is if you have nothing to eat! Follow me for a moment: So now you have to stop at say Dunkin Donuts to grab a bagel and coffee, but you get stuck in line and arrive at work late by ten minutes and your boss writes you up, or because you are late by even ten minutes hours and hours or hundreds of company dollars are lost or wasted.
So why would you have nothing to eat? If you made the choice not to buy food. Oh, you didn’t have time you say? Why not? Had to stay late at work to finish something? Why is that, and answer honestly! Are you actually overworked, or did you have the time but choose to procrastinate a bit during the work day? Busy talking to a cute guy or gal? Surfing the internet a little to much? Those are a choice, are they not?
And that choice made you late for work. Now, the scenario I just described may seem minor to some of you, or it may be important. But I want you to ignore the actual scenario and focus on what happened. How can you do that without looking at the situation you ask? Simple, don’t focus on the actual events but how those events unfolded and shaped as one choice led to another and your choices of action were thus limited by the previous choice.
Had you not procrastinated at work the previous day, you would have had the time to go to the store and buy food, your breakfast for the next morning. That would have meant you didn’t have to stop at Dunkin Donuts for breakfast, and thereby would not have been late for work!
Choices, are what I believe are tests. Fate likes to play games with us, and when you make the wrong choice it may not always be obvious to you immediately. Who knows how long that one simple choice may lay dormant, seemingly inconspicuous, and then out of nowhere come back to haunt you?
The best way to avoid problems that crop up from your choices, is to plan. Plan everything, think about everything constantly and always be exploring your options. Never rule anything out, even if it is something you think will NEVER in a million years happen, at least THINK about it. Make the conscience effort, dedicate some time to seeing what could happen, what choices could be made and how they could affect you. At least if that impossible event occurs, you have spent some time debating it and any snap or rash decision you make, will be affected by how much thought you have put into it.
I go through life everyday wondering and pondering. I also have a very active mind that races around at light speed. I can’t get it to sit still for anything. This gives me ample opportunity to think about a whole slew of things during the work day….while still getting the job done and just as proficient as the next person. Sometimes more so, because of how my entire life, including my professional one, revolves around making choices and planning ahead, being prepared for as many unusual, surprising or last minute things that may happen.
I am able to adapt to all sorts of situations very quickly, and because I thrive on information, being a “know-it-all” and just curious by nature, I usually have an idea of what is going on, or at least I have enough information to be able to figure out what is going on or needed in a given situation. It is one of the traits about myself that I both love and hate. I love it because I feel once an employer realizes the kind of potential I have, I become a valued asset to them. I hate it because, up until my potential is realized, my actions can be misconstrued as…nosy or not minding my own business.
People dislike when someone THEY feel doesn’t need to know information, does. Personally,unless the information is confidential…..why exactly does it matter who knows what? If someone is interested in knowing more about an operation or a process, why get all annoyed if you find out they know about it? Does it hurt YOU for them to know? Does it make them more important? Does it make you less important? If you answered yes to any of those, you need to think about what really matters. Why does what someone else knows, affect you at all? As long as you do your job to the best of your ability, don’t worry about it!
Well, this has certainly evolved a little past choices, eh? And I am not ranting about anything, nothing “happened” at work or anything like that. I just went off on a tangent for no reason, and because I have had people get annoyed in the past, for no good reason at all…..
Well, off to bed for me! Good night all, if anyone was bored enough to read all this…please, I welcome feedback! 