Are you at a critical point in your life, where you are at a crossroad? Wondering which decision to make, because the next step you take could very well determine the next phase of your life?
If you’re on the path of personal growth and development, you’ll eventually reach a point where you need to make a choice. It’s easier to read about personal growth concepts than it is to apply them, isn’t it?
Small Decisions
While we make many decisions in our daily life, the majority of them aren’t very critical. For example, making a choice about where to eat, what clothes to wear, where to go next, and so on. The impact that these decisions have don’t show up immediately.
However, the cumulative effect of such decisions eventually show up weeks, months, and sometimes years down the road of your life. It’s easy to dismiss the impact of such decisions because the results don’t show up immediately.
For example, if you’ve started on a healthier diet because you want to lose weight, and you tell yourself it’s “okay” to have that chocolate bar when you’re not supposed to. After all, it’s only “one chocolate bar”… it can’t do that much harm, right?
But take that act, and multiply it over the years, combined with other less than desirable lifestyle choices, and the effect is exponential. The hard part of handling small decisions is exactly because they are small, and we don’t see their effects immediately.
So how do would one break these little bad habits, other than having iron will and unrelenting discipline? 
Big Decisions
On the other hand, big decisions are those that can cause our hearts to pump, hands to sweat, and our lips to dry. We know for sure they will affect our life path. Decisions like marriage, changing jobs, putting aside what we assume to be the safe path to follow our “life purpose”, which could run contrary to what our social circle believes to be the norm.
Which decision should we make? The one that allows us to continue puttering along in our safe lives, never venturing outside of what we’ve been told to be true and the norm? Or the one that causes our knees to shake, our voice to quaver, and fear that makes us paralyzed?
How do we know “for sure” that the choice we make will be the right one? We will never truly know, until one day we look back to see the path that we have walked. And with the right perspective, we will see that every choice that we have made has always prepared us for better things in life to come… only if we choose to see it.
But what does this have to do with “Taking the Upward Path”?
Eventually, every choice we make will take us either higher, or lower. There isn’t truly any “sideways” decision. The fact is, that any “no decision” choice will eventually lead to stagnation, and from stagnation, decay. You really only have two choices…
- Take the Upward Path, or
- Take the Downward Spiral
Either you choose to develop into a better person, fulfill your potential and destiny, or you will eventually fall back into the mire that seems to hold people in fear, doubt and uncertainty.
There is an inner guidance within all of us, only if we seek to acknowledge that it is possible for us to have it. We all want more love, more light, more laughter and joy in our lives. We all tend to lean towards that which is bright, alive, and makes our lives better.
It takes a while to learn how to listen to that guidance, that inner nudging. But by learning to trust that inner intuition, and always keeping the higher good in mind, the Higher Path becomes clearer. It doesn’t necessarily become easier, but it becomes clearer.
In making these choices, we may have to leave the things that we cherish behind us to make space for the new and better things to come. By leaving behind that which binds us, and holds us down, we are lightened of our burdens that we have become comfortable clinging on to.
With the Higher Path in mind, all we can really do is to take one step at a time.
Because our life is lived one breath at a time.
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