Perhaps Life’s Most Significant Choice?

“Energies are contagious. Choose carefully. Your environment becomes you.”

It’s a Sunday tradition.

Meal prep.

I have a love/hate relationship with cooking. I love to cook, and I hate to clean up after I do. Especially when it takes longer to clean up than to actually eat.

A few years back I discovered meal prep. Each Sunday I’ll make a big batch of something and will pre-portion my creation into four matching containers. Lunch for the week is done. Sure, it’s the same lunch four days in a row, but the convenience outweighs any boredom from eating the same thing all week. It’s just one less thing to have to deal with each day.

The preferred protein is grilled chicken, usually marinated with olive oil, lemon juice, and an improvised combination of spices and herbs sort of just thrown in together. Like with any marinade, the longer the chicken soaks in its surroundings the more it becomes what it is soaking in.

It works for chicken.

It also works for humans.

The world around us acts as sort of a human marinade. What we are surrounded by will influence what we become. It will shape our views, opinions, actions, and possibilities. And the longer we soak in what’s around us the more of it we will become.

What we decide to surround ourselves with is always our option. The people, the messages, the media, the drama, the opinions, the vision, and the energy we willingly subject ourselves to are ultimately our own choice. It all soaks in.

Look around you. Is the world around you aligned with the world you wish to create for yourself? Does it support your hopes and dreams and vision for the life you intuitively know you were born to live?

Or is it keeping you stuck in an uncomfortably familiar and unfulfilling place?

It’s a choice.

Your choice.

It’s one of the most significant choices a person can ever make.

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