START WITH FREEDOM AND CHOICE         

          Who is responsible for the quality of your life?  Who determines whether your life will have been one lived in joy or misery?  Who has the power to grab hold of an attitude and change it?  You.

          From the first moment you blink awake in the morning, you can choose to have happiness, satisfaction and peace in your day.

           Let your first thought of the day be filled with an awareness of your personal freedom.  You always have the ability to choose how you will feel; therefore you are always fundamentally free.  You have total freedom to be joyful, happy, and even ecstatic!  

          You also have freedom of action, even if that means consciously choosing to do willingly that which you are obligated to do.  When you wake up, ask yourself what you could do with your day to bring you joy and happiness.  Think about something you really love to do and decide to put some aspect of that activity in your day.  If you awaken with a thought in your mind of something you'd like to do, that's your inner self-guiding you.  Follow your feeling and find time for it.

          Adopt the attitude that you will choose to do whatever you do.  If we fail to make this conscious turn of attitude, we often feel victimized or enslaved.  Those feelings cause resentment, anger, depression, ill health, and certainly, unhappiness.  It's our choice.  What kind of feelings to you want to permeate throughout your life? 

          When we make a conscious decision to choose to do what we do, we accomplish the task easily, swiftly and with energy to spare.  Be aware that you are, indeed, choosing what you do, if only because the consequence of an alternative choice is one you don't want.  You'll be much happier every day if you become consciously aware that you are making a choice and, therefore, are in charge of your life. 

          Throughout the day, stay in touch with your feelings.  Monitor your resistance.  Resistance and resentment can sneak up on us.  If we face the fact that we've slipped back into those feelings, we reduce the tension.  Then, we can once again consciously choose not to ruin our own day.  Continue to ask yourself what you choose to do next.  When you recognize that you do, indeed, have freedom of choice, often you may find that your choice is to do the task that next needs doing.  Approach anything with willingness, and your energy will flow without tension.