Grateful for choices

We all have to make choices whether we realise we are doing it or not. In my life I have made some good choices and some bad ones. I have been head-hunted a few times and each time I have been influenced, possibly blinded, in my choice by the prospect of more money and promises of a better car. Now with the benefit of a few years of hindsight I wish sometimes I had stayed where I was. Choices can seem great at the time, because it felt like I was moving on in my life; but enjoying the status quo might have been the wiser decision to make. It's important to hesitate and think when making big choices. None of us can forsee where we will be in 5,10 or 15 years time so we need to choose carefully. Having the ability to make our own choices right or wrong is something we need to be grateful for. Then we can use that gratitude to help make the right ones. I recently read a great book that talks about the effect of making choices. The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy shows how even the smallest choices can have an amazing long term effect on our lives. It is as if it is something akin to a butterfly flapping its wings in one part of the world causing a tidal wave in another. If you feel you have made bad choices, start to change your life by making good ones by taking time to consider the longer term picture. After all we can't depend on hindsight to guide our future. All we can do is be grateful for choices we made, good or bad, and learn from them.