A dear friend of mine recently accepted a new position and therefore resigned from her current job. This transition has spawned a lot of questions and curiosity, about whether or not she made the right choice.

We all make choices daily, thousand of minor decisions which paint our very life. Most of them are driven by instinct, but many of them are actions as the result of consideration, reasoning and evaluation. Although individually they probably won’t alter the path of our lives, a series of such choices easily could. Do you deliberately smile at the people you meet, do you always add extra cheese on your sandwich or do you intentionally drive 15mph faster than you should? Your smiles might invite you to a lifelong relationship, the extra cheese might lead to serious health issues and those 15mph might claim a person’s life someday. It’s choices like these that shapes our life and determine whether or not we will transform our dreams into reality, or reality into nightmares. It’s choices like these that determine whether or not we are going to spend our lives in prison, or spend our lives promoting freedom. We are truly our own advocates and we have the tools to build destinies. If you succeed in life it’s because you made more good choices than bad choices, obviously, but getting good at making the right choices, also build character to support the life altering decisions.

I’m confident that my friend made the right choice. Not just because she’s a bright human being, but because I’m confident that her choice was the logical solution to a much consideration. If you’re acting in the best interest of those directly affected by your choices, including your own, then it’s hard to make bad decisions.

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