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You can make a decision.........


     People often complain about their jobs. I often ask them, "Why did you go to work today?" Their answer usually is, "Because I had to". 
You and I need to remember one thing: there is virtually nothing that we have to do in this world. You certainly don't have to go to work. And you certainly don't have to work at a particular location on a particular day. You don't have to do what you've done  for the last ten years. 
You can decide to do something else, something new today. Right now you can make a decision.  To go back to school, to master dancing or singing, to take control of your finances, to learn to fly a helicopter, to turn your body into an inspiration, to begin meditating, to enroll in ballroom dancing, to learn to speak  in French, to read more to your children, to spend more time in your garden, even to fly to Fiji and live on an island. 
If you really decide to, you can do almost anything. So if you don't like the current relationship you're in, make the decision now to change it.
 If you don't like your current job, change it.
If you don't like the way you feel about yourself, change it. If it's a higher level of physical vitality and health you want, you can change it now. 
You must know that you can make a new decision right now that will immediately change your life - a decision about a habit you will change or a skill you will master, or how you will treat people, or a call that you'll make to someone you haven't  spoken to in years. 
Maybe you could make a decision right now to enjoy and cultivate the most positive emotions that you deserve to experience, daily.  

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