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The Defining Choice To Reach Our Long-Term Goals
Or live with the consequences of avoiding it
Have you noticed how, when looking at nature, nothing ever seems to change until, suddenly, everything does?
A dirt field transforms into beautiful green scenery, not from one day to the next, with a rushed paced to get it done, but does so at exactly the right pace, the one mother nature has set for it.
A single blade of grass doesn’t worry about its growth rate, whether or not it’s falling behind the others, or even if it is going to live another day. Quite simply, it just grows.
A beautiful process, that over the course of a few weeks, completely changes the scenery we’re admiring. An ever-lasting process of change.
A process that we humans have a hard time coming to terms with.
The Dilemma of Choice
While we can admire and marvel in the patience of nature, with all the beautiful results it brings, we seem to have an extraordinarily difficult time allowing for the same to happen with us.
Blessed with a brain that is conscious of itself, giving us, to a certain extent, freedom from our own impulses, an ability that no other species is fortunate to have, it also drags along with it a much bigger…
