Saturday, April 5, 2014

Each moment you decide who you want to be

“Each moment describes who you are, and gives you the opportunity to decide if that’s who you want to be.” iPEC foundation principle.

Yes. We define ourselves every day. Every moment to be exact. We are the culmination of our actions. Do you know any nice people? Why do you consider them to be “nice people”? It’s because we see them perform acts of kindness. How about people who are not nice? The only difference between the two is a matter of a moment. That moment when people have taken in all the information around them and make a decision on how to act.

Same can be said of people with integrity and those without, or of heroes and cowards. Many times people aren’t thinking of who they want to be in the moment. People are reacting. But what if you could stop yourself for one split second to ask yourself one question that could end up defining who you are?

Let’s say you are studying for an exam and you are exhausted. It is late at night and you want to go to bed. Every moment before this you have succeeded in finishing that homework, of completing that project, but now you are just too tired. Another hour would really make the material stick, but you could probably get by and pass the exam with the effort you have made so far. Instead of closing the books and going to bed, what if you took a moment and asked yourself this question: who do I want to be, right now? Do you want to be the person that just gets by? Or do you want to be the person who is dedicated to finishing all that they have started?

There’s no judgment. You can choose whoever you want to be. As long as you are happy with who you are, then any choice you make is the right one. But if you want more, if you want to be more, then seize the opportunity to decide who you want to be in that moment and make the best of it. Sometimes that moment will be with you for the rest of your life.

Enjoy Life.

Coach Randal Suozzo, CPC, ELI-MP
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