I Will Choose Freewill

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Growing up, and even now well into middle age (ouch!), one of my all time favorite bands is Rush. Three guys, four instruments, and four decades of groundbreaking music. While many wrote them off as “weird” (ok, they were, sort of… just listen to the 2112 album), their music touched on some pretty deep topics (check out the lyrics to The Trees and tell me they’re just talking about a forest). One of my favorite songs is Freewill. The key line in the song is, “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.” This one line influences my life to this day. A constant reminder, that if I don’t take a stand or make a choice, someone else will do it for me.

Choice is a huge topic for me, personally and with many clients. Everything we get in life, everything we experience in life comes down to the choices we make every single day. A coworker used to tell his teenage son every day, “Make good choices.” And while we all chuckled in the office listening to his daily phone conversations with his son, it was a great reminder to all of us.

So, here’s to making good choices ⚖️

~Suzanne

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose Freewill

-RUSH

Every minute of every day offers an opportunity to choose.

You choose what to wear, what to eat, whether to answer the phone or an email, which route to take to the grocery store, whether to sit facing the door or the wall at the restaurant. It’s mind boggling the number of choices we face each day.

Not every choice that appears for us will be life altering. Not every choice will be which career or which relationship or whether to travel abroad. The choices that influence your day-to-day joy may be as simple as what to eat for breakfast, which flowers to put on your table, or whether to go for a hike.

That said, even the most insignificant choice may be life altering.

If you choose to go for a hike and happen to meet a new friend, the trajectory of your life could be shifted. This person may become a spouse or new business partner or your best friend.

On the flip side, you not making a choice, by default, hands the choice to someone else. This is most evident during election years. If you choose not to vote, the votes of others will decide the outcome.

For me, choosing what to eat at a restaurant is an important decision. As much as I admire those who will go to a sushi restaurant and allow the chef to choose their meal, omakase is certainly not for me. I want to be sure I’m getting something I enjoy and will always pick from the menu options.

As a (Manifesting) Generator in Human Design, my strategy is “to respond”. What this means is that my correct decisions come from responding to external prompts and making a choice.

My strength comes in recognizing when a choice is presented and choosing the ones that feel like a “hell yeah!” And then it’s my job to act on those choices. When I don’t respond, or act on anything that doesn’t give me that “hell yeah” reaction, that’s when I find myself struggling.

For example, when I began studying Tai Chi my instructor was a wonderful Chinese doctor who brought her practice to a small town in the U.S. where I happened to live. I always had an interest in martial arts so when I stumbled across her school, I knew right away I was all in. Within a couple of years I was an assistant instructor and eventually had my own classes.

Soon after, I was invited by the doctor to study Tui Na, a form of Chinese medical massage, in the same facility where I taught. I never got that excited feeling like I did with Tai Chi, but I loved the school and the doctor, who had become a mentor to me, invited me so I took the courses.

While I did complete the coursework and took on a few clients, it never gave me the same satisfaction as teaching and I eventually stopped seeing Tui Na clients.

I certainly learned a lot during that time in the doctor’s office, but I had allowed my choice to be made for me and ended up working in an area that didn’t really excite me.

Wherever we find ourselves, at whatever stage in life, all comes down to our choices. We may not realize what our choices may bring until much later, but looking back, we can always find a connection of how our decisions led us down certain paths to bring us to our current circumstances.

Knowing this, if we find ourselves in a place or situation we’re not happy with, all it takes is a choice to move a different direction.

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