I’m really amazed at the amount of choice available to me right now.

From a career perspective there a so many options …

• apply for any number of new positions within my existing department
• apply for any of the positions within The Bank
• apply for jobs outside of the The Bank
• make the leap to follow my dream 

What really amazes me at this point is that with so much choice … there is really only one option.

Only one path that feels right.

Only one direction that will take me to where I want to go.

The choice is an obvious one (based on the reason for this blog) that I plan on making the leap.

I have chosen to change careers.

To follow my dream.

Going from employed to self-employed.

Transitioning from Intrapreneur to Entrepreneur.

I just find it amusing that when I have made a decision … so many other choices appear.

And when I have not … the choices seem so limiting … a scarcity of choice if you will.

Does this mean that when we follow our dream … there is only one path … and that path is filled with other tempting offers … to distract us from what we are meant to do?

It’s like we are being tested … when you have made a decision … any decision really … you can count on that decision being challenge in some way … testing our conviction … confirming our commitment to follow through.

But what about those times when there is a scarcity of choice?

I’m not talking about … avoiding choice … holding off a decision to choose … avoiding selecting a specific course of action … so that we can keep our options open.

For in fact … when we avoid choice … we are deciding not to choose … and this is still … in fact … a choice.

So what am I talking about?

I talking about those time when you feel stuck … stuck in a rut … if you will.

When the only option before you is to follow the option that you have always followed.

Staying on that safe, secure, predictable, comfortable path.

It’s interesting to note … that staying on the safe comfortable path is still a choice.

I’ve just decided to keep it out of my conscious awareness.

I’ve given away my power to choose … by living on default … by avoiding taking responsibility for my current situation.

So you see … it really is all about choice … even if I choose not to see it.

The choice is up to me.

And I choose to follow my dream.

This entry was posted on Monday, March 27th, 2006 at 9:11 pm and is filed under Goals, Choice.

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