Everything we do is a choice.

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Moment to moment we choose where we place our attention.

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We choose how we show up in the world.

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And we choose how we respond to our situation.

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Sometimes those choices are conscious and purposeful.

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Other times they are unconscious and reactive.

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Being human we flow back and forth between the two.

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So how do we live a more empowered life?

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How do we learn to be more aware of our choices and make better ones?

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There is one key that brings us to greater awareness and agency.

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For when this one thing is absent, we lose our ability to be mindful in our choices.

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And that key is responsibility.

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When we take full responsibility for all of our choices, we can decide to make different ones.

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On the contrary, when we reject our responsibility by blaming others, we fall into victimhood and lose our agency.

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This is not just true sometimes.

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It is true all the time.

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As we decide to take responsibility for everything we choose, all the good choices and all the bad choices, now we have ownership.

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Once we own our choices we can do something about them.

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It does not matter whether these are personal choices, business choices, career choices, or romantic choices.

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it is all the same.

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Because it is about our taking responsibility over them so we can move in a different direction.

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As long as we are shunning our part in any choice, we cannot change that choice.

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When we own our choices and allow ourselves to be accountable for them, now we have taken back our power.

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Now we can live life more consciously.

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And we can be more mindful of every new choice we make.

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This does not mean that we are always conscious and fully in our agency.

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We are human beings and we make mistakes and we will all fail at this sometimes.

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Failing is not the problem.

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As long as we recognize it and learn from it.

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For it is about leaning into where we want to go and how we want to be.

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The more we focus on taking responsibility for our lives, the more we will.

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So the next time we have a choice to make, perhaps we can give ourselves a little space to sit with the choice before we make it.

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By taking the time to breathe and truly feel how this next choice will impact the situation.

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And being even more aware that this choice can be completely different from any choice we have ever made before.

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The choice is ours.

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So where in your own life have you not been conscious about your choices?

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What would support you in taking more responsibility and making an empower choice?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant

Host of The Conscious Consultant Hour