CHOICES Magazine
Spring 2021 Encouragement Issue
Online Article Archive
The Path of Least Resistance
What are your life intentions? Your goals? What motivates you toward achieving these ideas? Life presents steppingstones. Each of these sturdy pathways guide us toward realizing our life’s path.
Choose to Find Your Passion and Follow It
If life feels dull, uninspiring and leaves you with little energy and focus, then why not look for a cause, hobby or career that feels right and sparks joy within you? You’ll be amazed at the difference it will make to you, your relationships, and probably even, your finances.
Invest in Yourself – Find a Mentor
Mentors can be an incredible means of investing in yourself. Mentors are typically experts in their sphere of influence, but, at the very least, they are people more knowledgeable and experienced than you in a particular area.
4 Ways to Use Dreams to Promote Your Success
Everyone in the world has dreams of some sort, but very few turn these dreams into successes. This isn’t because it’s impossible to make your dreams a reality, but rather, they simply just don’t know how to use their dreams for their benefit.
How Emotional Intelligence Helps You Achieve Goals
Emotional intelligence, also known as EQ (emotional quotient) refers to one’s ability to understand, utilize, and manage one’s own emotions in healthy and positive ways as a means of effective communication, empathizing with others, alleviating stress, conquering challenges, and defusing conflict.
Psychological Fulfillment – The Need to Dream
As a child, you likely spent more time talking about your life dreams than you do now. And that’s probably because someone in your life told you that dreams aren’t an important part of life and they don’t matter in the grand scheme of things.
5 Tips to Maintaining Your Goals on a Daily Basis
Making goals is often extremely easy compared to keeping and achieving them over a long period of time. The best way to maintain goals is by checking in with them, and yourself, on a daily basis.
Manage Today’s Uncertainty by Staying in the Present
We all face seasons of life filled with uncertainty. It’s a feeling of being unsure or having doubt regarding a specific situation or set of circumstances. It is important to find ways to manage uncertainty and a great way to go about that process is by making a conscious choice to stay in the present.
The Little Engine That Almost Couldn’t!
Most of us have read or at the very least have heard of the famous children’s story, “The Little Engine That Could,” written by Watty Piper, published in 1930, and is now considered an American folktale. Its message, filled with wisdom, is hard to repudiate by anyone who picks up the book and reads it.
A Final Note
Who told you life was going to be easy? There are lots of troubles, irritations, and pains in life. Things happen. Things go wrong. People don’t always do what we want them to. Don’t depend on other people for your happiness.
What the World Needs Now is You
Spring is here with determination and hope that it is time to move forward with as much safety and health as possible.
You Are More Than That
Have you ever tried to take out a bamboo grove? It’s just about impossible. Bamboo is the epitome of resilience – cut them down in one spot, and they show up in another. It reminds me of the human spirit. It can be resilient and thrive even when conditions seem to be against it.











