Lifestyle and The Power to Choose
- Gypsy Gardener
- 1 day ago
- 4 min read
lifestyle
noun
Someone's way of living, the things they usually do based on decisions they make.
How often do you think about the lifestyle you lead? Do you consider that you even have a lifestyle? Have you considered the real meaning of a 'lifestyle'?
Having a 'lifestyle' doesn't mean working online from the beach everyday and going to parties all the time. That is a lifestyle and it's not for everyone. Your lifestyle can be as simple as having a low maintenance garden, a house and going camping on the weekends. Maybe it's running a business and supporting your local community. You could be growing and raising your own food. Even if your working hard Monday to Friday and busy with kids on the weekends, that's a lifestyle. It could be a combination of any of these things and more. It's your lifestyle. You decide what it is. The best bit? You can change it anytime you like. It's YOURS!
It is estimated that we make around 35,000 decisions a day! I don't know how that was worked out or who did it but it's a big number! Most of the decisions we make each day are automatic, they have become a habit and we rarely think about them. From brushing our teeth to kissing the kids goodnight or how we answer the phone, these are all decisions we make. Not to mention the countless ones we make while driving. Even your mindset helps determine your lifestyle. Are you a glass half full or glass half empty person?
At the end of the day all these decisions add up to the result which is your Lifestyle.
So basically, your lifestyle is an accumulation of lots and lots of decisions made based on choices you have. Want to change your lifestyle? Change your decisions. There is ALWAYS a choice, doing nothing is also a choice. The change doesn't have to be huge, that's the magic of choices! Lots of small decisions over time will amount to BIG changes.
Make informed choices, make deliberate choices and accept the outcome because at the end of the day YOU made the decision. You were in control. Take accountability, it's more powerful than you think.
Something I learnt many moons ago while doing some personal development was to ask yourself the following questions when faced with making big decisions.
1. "What's the worst thing that could happen?"
Now you have to be real and honest with yourself on this.
2. "Are you ok with that outcome IF the worst case were to happen?"
Again, be HONEST! If you're not ok with it, so be it. Maybe you have some things you have to deal with to change the answer.
If the answer is "YES, I'm ok with the worst case scenario" then maybe you should go for it! Magic happens when you step outside your comfort zone.
There's no pint being jealous of someone who looks like they have a way better lifestyle, you don't know the journey they had to get there. They may have made many sacrifices and made lots of hard decisions to get there. So can can you. Be mindful each day of the choices you have and the decisions you make to create the lifestyle you want. Choose with intent, make your decisions count.
At the time of writing this I am currently making changes in my own life to build the lifestyle I want moving forward. I am being disciplined and instead of watching YouTube or Netflix I'm investing my evenings on practicing my atrworks and learning more about social media. I'm finding ways to generate income doing things I like such as travelling, writing and creating. I started a TikTok account and filmed myself for the first time and actually posted in online!!
I'm happy to share with people what I'm doing to create the life I want. It's not a secret and I'm not selling you anything. I won't tell you what you should do to be like me, I don't want you to be like me. I want you to be the best version of you that you can be. Don't get me wrong, I know people who are life coaches and they are beautiful people who I respect. I'm not trained to help others change their life, I just want to share what I'm doing. In fact, here are some links to people I admire and trust if you want to check out your options!
I have realised that I have knowledge and wisdom worth sharing. I have creativity that people appreciate and I'm embracing that with both hands and running with it. I have been working on my writing, art and other background systems for over 12 months but really ramping it up recently, so it is not happening overnight but it IS happening. I'm learning a lot of new things and I am excited about the future. I'm about to start learning how to put together long form YouTube videos as well.
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I appreciate you making it to the end of this article and hope you got something out of it.
Keep in touch and remember - Have Fun!
Lifestyle and the power to choose what you want, go get it!
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