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“Life is a temporary assignment.” “Life is a test.”

We all face a lot of choices in life. In fact, it might be said we are given a
plethora of choices in life. The image above is of Alice in Wonderland. It

represents some choices she was faced with.

This can be applied to goal-setting.

Life has so many choices, and we have so many
different things to choose from

that it can be confusing and even overwhelming.
This is why it’s important to set SPECIFIC GOALS,

as we talked about.

Here is a Humorous Story about Making Choices

We are given so many choices in life that life can become confusing.

Have you looked at the jam or peanut butter aisle in the grocery store?
It can almost cause temporary insanity trying to make a choice.

How about ice cream? My wife Eileen and I had this experience when
we were in London, England about 20 years ago (We live in Colorado,

USA). We were standing behind two Englishmen at a sidewalk ice cream
shop. I knew we had 40–50 different flavors of ice cream in the U.S. But

what I heard from one of these two men made me laugh:

“How do those bloody Americans decide between so many flavors of
ice cream? I can hardly decide between vanilla, chocolate, and
strawberry.”

They heard me laugh, even though it was subtle. One turned around

and asked, “You’re an American, aren’t you?” I laughed and said, “Yes,
I’m one of those bloody Americans.”

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