Each new day grants us the opportunity to start over with a clean slate as it were, and put the past well and truly behind us. Let’s face it we cannot change the mistakes we made yesterday but we can try and make better choices today. Over the years I have made poor choices in all areas of my life at some stage or other, after all I am only human, and it is therefore in my genetic make up to get things wrong along the way. I have to accept that they were my choices whether right, wrong or something in between. I think we all have lessons to learn, and those mistakes or bad choices are just part of the curriculum. That said, sometimes we make the same mistakes over and over again, repeating bad patterns that hinder us and hold us back rather than help us and move us forward.

Why is that? I sometimes wonder.Why do we often choose to repeat things that no longer serve us? And that is, if they ever served us in the first place, which most likely they never did or did they? Sometimes I think we fall into bad habits, and they then become part of our daily ritual and become the norm because it seems easier that way.  Now I could be talking about anything here, smoking, drinking alcohol, too much caffeine, drug taking, over the counter medicines, spending too much money, gambling, too much sugar, too much food, too much tv, too much social networking, too much procrastination, not enough exercise, too much exercise, too much of anything or maybe not enough of something, just to name a few things that stop us in our tracks and gets us stuck in a rut; take your pick or add something else not listed here. 

However, the beauty of being human is that we can make choices! Yes, we often may make poor choices and regret those choices. On the plus side we can decide at any given moment in time to change our minds and make better choices. Choices that will help us move towards our goals, find our life’s purpose; choices that take us closer to wherever it is we want to go. It really is up to us. That’s the beauty of it! The point is we have the power within us to change direction at any given moment,  and choose which way we wish to go from this point forward. It may not always feel as though we have a choice but the reality is that we do. 

So, choose to do something today that your future self will thank you for! 

© Liola Lee 2019

Image © Liola Photographic shown is of a British Common Blue Butterfly on a Michaelmas Daisy. Butterflies are wonderful symbols of transformation.