Why Choice is NEVER Yours Alone!
Logic vs. Emotions
Everyday we make choices, hundreds and hundreds of them.
Sleep in or Get up?
Cereal or Oat Meal?
Tv or Work?
Etc.
Every time we make a choice we engage two parts of ourselves, the logical and the emotional.
Logic resides in our brain, our brain will typically give us the answer that keeps us safe and makes the most sense.
Emotion resides in our heart, our heart provides us with a feeling and that feeling drives us.
It’s almost as if the feeling is the byproduct of logic.
This happens both before and during a choice being made.
This is where our daily struggle lies, in that space between emotion and logic is where we search for answers.
For example:
I’ve studied and taught financial literacy for years. In many scenarios we find situations where the best financial decisions are not the best emotional decisions. Often times we’ll know exactly what makes the most sense with money and exactly how we should proceed but we do the opposite because we know this choice will bring more peace of mind, joy, happiness, etc.
Emotions are the SWAT team to your logic. They’re there to provide reinforcement and allow you to feel how this choice will feel.
There’s literally a conduit between the brain and the heart, between the emotional and logical.
As humans it becomes our job to decipher the psychological code and create harmonious balance between these two.
Between both of these decision centers is a pathway, your pathway.
Your collective of life choices resides in the middle.
We are the forgers of the road which we walk upon. At the end of the day recognition is not merely enough, we must still choose.
As the interpreter between you and your decisions you then present a 3rd set of eyes looking upon your personal roadmap.
It is this individual, this one, this self who must truly make the decision.