For Life – Choices Program

OVERVIEW

The universe provides us with endless opportunities and resources. We are also born with different abilities, talents and capabilities. What limits us is the choices that we make and the quality of our decisions that are based on the type of choices that we make.

We seem to lack the courage to use the power that lies in the freedom of choice, to pursue what we really want to do in life and to move away from toxic environments. Instead of having the bravery and will to move away from those environments, fear forces us to find reasons to stay, and that, is at the detriment of our wellbeing and at the expense of future regrets.

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM

Choices Program is a life changing program designed to empower people in making the best choices in life.
Making a choice when there are few options and low risk is easy. Making a choice when there are many options is a challenge. Making a choice on lifetime decisions is a serious challenge with high risks.
This program will empower us to make the right choices, to change the current course of our lives if required, and to strive to be the best that we want to be and the best that we can be.
It is a program aimed at helping us to take responsibility and accountability of our choices and decision, and to refrain from apportioning blame to others and situations.

QUOTATIONS ON CHOICES WE MAKE IN LIFE

Everything you do is based on the Choices you make. It’s not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you chose to be happy. No person will make you happy until you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.

In every single thing you do, you are choosing a direction. Your life is a product of choices.

Life is about Choices. Some we regret, some we’re proud of. Some will haunt us forever. The message: We are what we choose to be.

Life is a choice – as is how you handle the pitfalls along its bumpy road.

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

PROGRAM OUTLINE

The program includes models, theories, and literature from other subject matter expects and psychologists and includes the following main topics;

Values, Beliefs, Perceptions and Attitudes
The difference between Making Choices and Decision Making
Why do we make Bad Choices and Decisions?
The Psychology of Choice
Top Five Regrets of the Dying
Consequences and impact of Wrong Decisions: Taking Accountability
How to Evaluate and Change Current Situations

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DECISION MAKING AND CHOICE

The difference between choice and decision can be summarized as follows:

	CHOICE	DECISION
DEFINITION	Defines as opportunity, right and power to choose	Defined as reaching a conclusion or resolution after consideration
FACTORS	Influenced by persons values, beliefs and perception about choice	Influenced by the analysis of facts and information
ALTERNATIVES	Choice implies existence of alternatives	Does not imply existence of alternatives
SELECTION	Selection from alternatives. Weigh up option, consider pros and cons. Advantageous option. May be a subjective selection	Analysis of facts, data or information to make a comparison. Mainly objective in nature.
THOUGHT PROCESS	Unconscious mind, intuition, rule of thumb, habit	Factual. Uses previous knowledge and experience