I dont know what challenges you will face today, or what decisions you will have to make, and I’m not going to tell you if your choice is right or wrong.
I can encourage you to keep choosing the good.
But, if that brings some kind of remorse or shame or pressure to make sure you’re making the right choices, then let me break it down for you a little better:
Just choose the good-er one.
As you pick between
- Two potential new jobs
- A job versus caring for a member of your family
- Or for caring yourself (for a change)
- Saying no to the busy work you always get left with
- Or to stop pretending you’ll make time for that relationship when things settle down (spoiler: they won’t)
- And every other choice you make in a day
Choose the one that feels even 1% good-er than the other one, and you will be alright in the end.
Because that 1% more of the good things you choose builds and builds over your life, leaving you the result of a good, rich life, over time.
Side note: Turns out that good-er is usually not the one with the most money involved, at least at the outset.
- That relationship you finally made space for
- That mental peace and emotional resilience you developed through meditation, exercise, and/or working through past trauma
- That ability you finally developed to say No to things that made you look one way but feel another
All these good choices have a compounding effect.
A goodness about you that will pay its own dividends in peace, good work, centeredness, full love, and better alignment of your reality and your expectations.
And, instead of searching for riches, you will find richness—in your heart, your life, faith and work.
That, my friend, is a good, good life.