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Making Decisions

Happiness isn’t an end result it is the biggest part of our lives.

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“Making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Some choices you make in your life will be met with resistance from others. Your decisions will not make sense to them; sometimes, your decisions will not even make sense to you. Like Paulo Coelho says in The Alchemist, making a decision is only the beginning. Some things in life are worth defying logic, which is why we should never let our fears, or doubts make it impossible to make choices that we believe will make us happy.

When life consistently gives us chances make a good life for ourselves, letting apprehensions and worries control the situation is no better than than the worst-case scenario of a decision.

Happiness shouldn’t be postponed because a person is afraid to make a decision just as a person shouldn’t put off their happiness until we have gone through suffering. Happiness isn’t an end result it is the biggest part of our lives. We continue to put so much emphasis on only choosing things which are concrete rather than taking a leap and learning to fly while you fall.

We often shortchange ourselves by giving up our intuition by not listening to what our heart is telling us what we need. We continue to lack trust in the universe to get us to where we want to be by making choices that we can easily predict the outcome of instead of diving into the unknown.

Each decision we make for ourselves, and no one else, is the beginning of a new phase in our journey. It is the realization of our own ability and potential to make a choice towards our own happiness. When you really want something and believe you are making the right decision, time and space bends in order to help you achieve it so long as you are doing it for the good.

When we live vivaciously and without fear, we become better than we are and with that, everything around us becomes better along side it. We are all capable, at any time in our lives; to make a decision that will enrich our lives and make us happier. The future is never revealed to anyone, which means out futures are being composed as we are living, while we are making the decisions that are ultimately pushing us in the direction of our destiny.

By making decisions that make us happy, we are jumping into the current that will carry us to the places we dream about.

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