Choose every day

If we were forced to choose between one option or the other?

If we were forced to express our point of view, every day, knowing that what we are about to say might put us in a bad light, it could hurt the other person or ruin our relationship?

If we had to choose between a winding road, full of sacrifices to be overcome, and a shortcut, where the compromises abound?

…If we had these choices to make every day, what would be base our decisions on? Would we be fast or slow?

Would we take the various options seriously into account, or would we adhere to policies, culture, instructions?

We know that our choices have the power to increase or reduce stress levels in our body and this is the basis of almost all of the problems that plague us (you can read about the scientific research in the book “The Healing Code”). What needs to be learnt to manage stress, to control it or “transform” it to achieve our goals, if we continue to make choices based on what life offers us, rather than on what we are?

The film The Hunger Games is the story about several districts in which punitive games are organised. Boys that are preselected face each other in battles of various types with the aim of surviving. The regulation provides that there will only be two winners, but all of a sudden the rules change. As happens in everyday life, work is often a jungle, you have to elbow your way through to get some space, compete and fight the battles of all types; but occasionally someone changes the rules (the market, the boss, a co-worker) and you find yourself face to face with important choices in life. How you face them depends on you.

Katniss could have killed Peeta to win. It would have been a choice dictated by circumstance, cynicism and survival. “Mors tua vita mea” some would say, regardless of the result. Yet in these 2-minute clip, we find an unusual choice being represented, or rather remaining bound to principles, knowing that death is waiting for us, or eternal happiness. We often think about having to survive, when in fact we are already rich enough and all we need to do is realise this to avoid making choices based on what life offers us and not on what we are.

Now, if Katniss had killed Peeta, she would have survived, she would have won, sure, but her conscience would have worn her down. Karma does not forgive, especially from a more spiritual angle and above all stress germs proliferate in the choices made greedily or that are misaligned with your values​​.

Katniss did not have any doubt about what to do, maybe she was bluffing, but by remaining tied to her values she ​​saved her own life and that of Peeta, very quickly.

This may happen, perhaps even in business, but when you’re focused and know clearly who you are, then success will soon come even though you may have to leave your safety net. There is something magical about being intellectually honest with yourself.

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“… and in case I don’t see ya…

good afternoon, good evening and good night!”…

(The Truman Show)

Virginio