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The Power of Decision









The most exciting thing about this power or this force, is that you already possess it. The explosive impetus of decision is not something reserved for a select few with the right credentials or money or family background. It is available to the common labourer as well as the king. It's available to you now as you read this article. In the very next moment you can use this mighty force that lies waiting within you  if you merely muster the courage to claim it. 

 Will Today be the day you finally decide that who you are as a person is much more than you've been demonstrating? 

 Will today be  the day you decide once and for all to make your life consistent with the quality of your spirit?  

 Then start by proclaiming, "This is who I am. This is what my life is about. And this is what I'm going to do. Nothing will stop me from achieving my dreams....

 Consider a fiercely proud individual, a woman named Rosa Parks, who one day in 1955 stepped onto a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and refused to give up her seat to a white person as she was legally required to do. Her one quiet act of  civil disobedience sparked a firestorm of controversy and became a symbol  for generations to follow. It was the beginning of the civil rights movement, a consciousness-awakening ground swell that we are grappling with even today as redefine the meaning of equality, opportunity, and justice for all peoples'  regardless of  race, creed or sex.

  Was Rosa Parks thinking of the future when she refused to give up her seat in that bus? Did she have a divine plan for how she could change the structure of society? Perhaps. But what is more likely is that her decision to hold herself to a higher standard compelled her to act. What a far-reaching effect one woman's decision has had.....




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