Many of my wonderful clients and I have celebrated birthdays this month, and that's got me thinking about gift giving.  So today I'd like to share with you a gift you can choose to give yourself any time of the year!

One of the things I've come to realize about people who love their lives is that those people make more conscious choices than others.  They consciously choose their thoughts, their actions, their responses, who they learn from, and the kinds of lives they want to live.

Living this way leads to more happiness, peace, and abundance than many people can even imagine.  And it all starts with the decision to choose more consciously.

If you haven't yet made this decision, you are likely allowing other people to make choices for you.  You're following certain unwritten, yet commonly held "rules' about how you should think, feel, and act. 

Here's an example.  Let's say you have a fight with a family member, and you find yourself angry about this fight days or weeks afterward.  Your anger gets in the way of you feeling happy and peaceful. 

Without realizing it, you may be reacting to this fight according to a "rule" you've picked up throughout your life.  The rule is, "If you have a fight with someone, you must re-enact that fight over and over again in your mind, and you must stay angry at the other person for a certain amount of time." 

If you and I were having a conversation about your anger in this situation, and I asked you why you've chosen to hang onto your anger, you might even get frustrated and impatient with me, because of course you're angry -- you have no other choice!  (It's "the rule.")

Here's where it becomes important to recognize the truth.  There actually is no rule about how we have to feel or respond to any given situation.  We act like there is, but in truth there is not.  In fact, we can choose to respond in an unlimited number of ways to any given event.  But most of us are so caught up in our "busyness" that we just respond by default, and that means reaching for responses we've learned throughout our life from other people.  And depending on how conscious your life teachers have been, those responses might often be ones that do not serve you well!

Making conscious choices in your life -- from what thoughts you choose to think to what dreams you pursue -- could be just what you need to create your ideal life!

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