October 12, 2025- Choose love

More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.

~Roy T Bennett

We get to choose so much of our lives. The circumstances outside our control do not have to own us. Our actions and our reactions are our own. Our attitudes are our own.

We must consider what all our negative thoughts and negative emotions get us. Do they bring us any closer to our dreams? Do they help us evolve into a better version of ourselves? Do they make our lives any easier, any more fulfilling?

What if we could set down all that baggage? We don’t have to deny that negative events go on in our lives. We don’t have to ignore the fact that human suffering exists, sometimes chronically and sometimes systemically, but we don’t have to sit in those feelings and emotions all the time. We can focus on the things inside our control. We can zoom in on our own power. We can concentrate on our next step, rather than agonizing over the distance between ourselves and the finish line.

Life is and always will be about our choices. Can we choose more hope, more gratitude, and more love? Can we spend less time and energy on what we dislike about our lives and more on engineering the lives we want?