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bluidkiti · 04-30-2019, 06:34 AM

April 30

Give yourself more options

Rather than complaining about the situation, work to give yourself more options. Rather than worrying about your vulnerability, or about the unreliability of others, give yourself more options.

When you have more options, you have more confidence, more control over your own affairs. Options give you the ability to walk away from a negotiation, and that enables you to negotiate from a position of power.

Options give you independence, the power of choice. Options provide you with multiple ways to respond to difficulty, multiple strategies for seizing opportunity.

Discovering and developing new options, takes work. That work is effort well spent because it earns you increased leverage over your circumstances.

Take inventory and ask yourself, what options do you now have? Then consider, what new options could you develop?

When you only have one possible path forward, that could be a big problem. Avoid that problem and enhance your effectiveness by working to create more options for yourself.

— Ralph Marston

04-30-2019, 06:34 AM	#30
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 71,165	April 30 Give yourself more options Rather than complaining about the situation, work to give yourself more options. Rather than worrying about your vulnerability, or about the unreliability of others, give yourself more options. When you have more options, you have more confidence, more control over your own affairs. Options give you the ability to walk away from a negotiation, and that enables you to negotiate from a position of power. Options give you independence, the power of choice. Options provide you with multiple ways to respond to difficulty, multiple strategies for seizing opportunity. Discovering and developing new options, takes work. That work is effort well spent because it earns you increased leverage over your circumstances. Take inventory and ask yourself, what options do you now have? Then consider, what new options could you develop? When you only have one possible path forward, that could be a big problem. Avoid that problem and enhance your effectiveness by working to create more options for yourself. — Ralph Marston __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.