My Choice

​I was listening to a podcast recently and I heard someone say something I really hold to.  It is no great insight and it is incredibly obvious to me.  It is what I live by.  They said something like “you become what you look at.”
To me that is to say, what you spend your time admiring and doing is what you become.
I really can look at anyone and tell heaps about them just by looking at what is held as important in the life.
What is important in my life is what I am.  For years I saw myself as someone who although decent would never achieve much.  The key to me is that is how I saw myself.  Anyone who is successful in any endeavour sees themselves that way and pursues that.  Little wonder that is what they become.  The best in sport or in business or in philanthropy has seen themselves that way and worked towards it.
Many fail though because they saw the obstacles as showstoppers, and were unwilling to pay the price necessary to achieve a goal.
I do not set myself up as though this is a “them and me” scenario.  I know I face the same choices in life.  I do not think for a moment that I am immune to what is obvious.
Like everyone I have a choice.  I do not pretend I do not need help in choosing what is both best for me and others.  Nor do I pretend that changing ways is easy.  The longer I go on making bad choices the easier it is to make bad choices.
And yet bad choices are not my lot in life.  Good choices are a choice away.  Yet changing is the start of a battle really.  It is easier to go with the flow then swim against the tide.  But when the flow leads to a giant waterfall it is best to swim against it and get all the help available.