The Power of Choice!
Fátima Ribeiro,
Executive Coach
The power to choose is one of our greatest powers as human beings! Through our actions we learn and transform!
From the day we were born we unconsciously begin to make choices and over time these become more or less conscious.
We have the power to learn to consciously choose… choose to be the people we want to be… build the life we want to live… create the family we want to have… contribute to the community we want to live in… and the society we long to belong to.
Dr. Juan Hitzig studied the characteristics of some healthy long-lived people and concluded that beyond the biological characteristics, the common denominator of all of them lay in their behaviours and attitudes, explaining that each thought generates an emotion and each emotion mobilises a hormonal circuit that will have an impact on the 5 trillion cells that make up our body.
Using Spanish initials, he identifies “S” behaviours such as serenity, silence, wisdom, flavor, sex, sleep, smile that generate “A” attitudes of encouragement, love, appreciation, friendship, closeness; On the contrary, “R” behaviours such as resentment, anger, rancor, reproach, resistance, repression generate “D” attitudes of depression, discouragement, despair and desolation.
Wendy Jordan, successful Panamanian creator of the Encuentra24 portal, said in May at a meeting of the Executive Women’s Commission at APEDE that attitude, focus, persistence, confidence, the spirit of improvement and creating a positive environment were key to her success.
Camelia Ilie-cardoza, Dean of Executive Education at INCAE, on her Twitter account, has the following message “life is as good as your mentality.”
These examples remind us that we have the power to choose our behaviours and attitudes, and that our choices influence the quality of our lives.
A Coaching process supports the opening of new perspectives, forging visions and possibilities that allow us to look beyond, simultaneously working on emotions, thoughts and actions, generating awareness and empowerment.
Let’s take action to broaden horizons, gaining wings to fly to a more conscious choice with our life purpose!
