“No one else can ever make your choices for you. Your choices are yours alone.”
Shad Helmstetter
Notable Quotes
“Each person has a choice; the choice to do as one may wish and as one wants remains with the individual. If a person sees no benefit to change, they will not change.”
Byron Pulsifer
“The choices that we make in our life, indeed determine the kind of results that we experience and the quality of the life that we live.”
Sumeet Jain
“May your choices reflect your hopes not your fears.”
Nelson Mandela
“The end result of your life here on earth will always be the sum total of the choices you made while you were here."
Shad Helmstetter
Excerpts from Shad Helmstetter book Choices
Key Points
• Choices create our success and failures in life.
• Who you are, beginning today, is the result of new choices you start to make today.
• We are the roadblock that gets in the way of making our choices work.
• What brought you to where you are now is your programming.
• It is only when you exercise your right to choose that you can also exercise your right to change.
• Our past programming, both from others and from our own harmful self-talk, that stops us from exercising our free will.
• It is the choices you make today that are creating the programs of your future.
• Our programs influence or direct what we think, how we feel, and what we do, day in and day out in every area of our lives.
• If you want to change your programs, change your choices. Choices create change.
• Your attitudes are created by your beliefs, and your beliefs are created by your programming.
• When we have major choices under control, we tend to do better with the minor choices that confront us every day.
• The choices we make by accident are just as important as the choices we make by design.
• The choices we make unconsciously can be no better than the programs behind them.
• People who have unclear goals, unclear pictures of themselves, and make unclear choices, end up with an unclear future.
• Is my present program working for me or isn’t it.
• Four Steps of Choice:
• Say to yourself. Is this a choice?
• If the answer is yes, say to yourself This choice is mine.
• Given the choice as much or little thought, say to yourself. My choice is.
• Say to yourself. The reason I made this choice is…
• It is the big choices we make that set our direction. It is the smallest choices we make that get us to the destination.
• It is our programming that determines most of our happiness for us.
Additional Reading
Choices by Shad Helmstetter
Points of Reflection
Are my present choices and actions taking me where I want to go?
“There is no life as complete as the life that is lived by choice."
Shad Helmstette