Highlights

The power of Choice – making the Right Choice – living with the consequences – spouse selection – career selection – work and life balance.

Quotations for Consideration

“If you have choices, choose the best. If you have no choices, do your best. In either case you need to be clear on what is the best” – Col. P.L.N. Choudary, AVSM

“Do not define importance by urgency, things that matter most are important but not necessarily urgent. Don’t let things that matter least take time away from things that matter the most” – Stephen.R.Covey

“It is choice, not chance – that determines your destiny” – Jean Nidetch.

Even as chance may affect the consequences of your choice.

“The cards you are dealt is fate. How you play your hand is destiny” – Bertrand Russell

“The difference between SUCCESS and FAILURE is not CHANCE but CHOICE” – Hony. Lt. P.V.K. CHOUDARY M.B.E.

“What happens to us is an event. How we process, perceive and interpret that event becomes our experience. Your thoughts create your reality. What you focus on is what is attracted towards yourself… Like attracts like… believing something can be done sets the mind in motion to find a way to do it. Control the direction of your thinking and always manage to hold positive thoughts as your most dominant thoughts. … be prepared for all possible contingencies in life, while planning projects and while introspecting life, … think (also, of ) what can be negative, what could have been overlooked, what can go wrong, what is bad….examine the negative so that you can take precautions to counter (it). It is just contingency planning.” – T. T. Rangarajan

“Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – William Jennings Bryan.

Understanding Choice

Choices arise and call for decisions to be taken when you seek or face the need for betterment, for a change. Of course as Stephen.R.Covey notes- change itself has changed. Today it feels accelerated in all fields more than anyone ever imagined. However, the one thing that has not changed and never will is the fact that there are timeless and universal principles. They apply everywhere in the world and at all times. Principles inherent in the concept of Dharma like fairness, honesty, mutual respect, ethics and accountability, which govern our lives in the same way that natural laws like gravity, dictate the consequences of falling off a building. If we live by these principles, they will work for us to make our lives better and happier.

Choices arise and call for decisions for a change.

The law of ‘Karma’ or reciprocity is just as constant as the law of gravity. You can’t violate a moral principle or a natural law without suffering the consequences.

Unlike animals, we have the advantage of being endowed with the faculties of conscience, imagination, self- awareness and independent will.We can sense right from wrong. We can stand apart from ourselves and evaluate our own behaviour. We can live out of our own imaginations, the future we wish to create instead of being held hostage by the memory of the past. The more we exercise such endowments the greater our freedom to choose.

We choose to make the principles work for us or against us. We revel in our ability to choose. However, we must value that we cannot take short cuts around the principles of life. You cannot get success without paying the price. You cannot have the rewards of a good character without having good character.

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