The word “Choices” itself gives us clues to components of good decision-making. I believe that good choices are ones that bring about more ability, more freedom for ourselves and others and ones that allow for continued growth in situation. Here is a way of looking at your daily choices and seeing how they are or are not contributing to this.

C: Creative A good choice calls on your creativity, your interest in finding solutions that may have been hidden. They actual feel good in your body because you can feel energy of your creativity being engaged. This in itself is satisfying.

H: Healthy Faced with a decision you can always look at what is healthiest route both for yourself, for those involved and perhaps even for future. Healthy native cultures often make decisions based on impact they may have for generations to come. We have lost that long-range vision and often make short-term decisions that are detrimental to entire situation further down road.

O: Open- Opportunities – Objective Does decision keep you open to possibilities? Does it bring in a larger field of opportunities? Are you able to make it in an objective as opposed to an emotionally reactive state?

I: Inspire Inspiration is usually outcome of a good decision. Even if solution is difficult or next steps hazardous you know that you are doing best thing possible in situation. Once more that in itself adds to your self-esteem and raises energy available in situation or system.

C: Connections Isolation of some sort is often by-product of questionable decisions. Whether that isolation is from others, our own selves or our talents and abilities. But when we maintain those basic connections we can more safely navigate new and unknown territory that some choices bring.

E: Empower At then end of day do your choices leave you feeling empowered – author of your own decisions or do you feel caught in a web of confusion. If later is true it is time to stand back and begin to take a larger view of issues at hand.

S: Soul Finally choices that both utilize your connection to your soul and serve to support that bond are those that will bear richest fruit.

Ask yourself – does this choice call on creativity – does it lead to healthy actions that support an open attitude and opportunities that lead to inspiration of some kind – empowering you and others to maintain soul- energy – heart and guidance available in each moment. Choices such as these create energy – not drain it- they feel good to us and at end of day we can rest easy knowing that regardless of outcome we have done best that we can.

We are authors of our lives and our business. Although we are each within a larger field of forces, history and pressures each of us has at our disposal creative wisdom, connection and creativity that help us navigate sometimes-chaotic landscape of each day.

“Feel truth of what you are and at same moment act. Risk yourself for what you know is right and true.” Fredrick Douglas, escaped slave from an Independence Day speech

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They will personally take on responsibility to provide full and profitable employment for all those who want it, not on a mere national scale, but a global one, because their successes will be documented and published globally. They will create worthwhile global models. They will shed national fraud that we are better because we have more than everybody else. It is as though a generation has patiently awaited opportunity to take their message around world.

Neither is it to be expected that U.S. Baby Boomers will be alone in their efforts. Most of those born of World War Two veterans are of common spirit and ready to move beyond social criticism to social activism. We see it with Bill Gates and Ted Turner, Wayne Dyer and Oprah Winfrey. The list of progressive thinkers grows daily and globally. Boomers were sadly deficient in role models. No more. We have them for us and generations that follow. This makes all difference.

In ten more years philanthropists and global charities will be asking how much they can do with a dollar, instead of how many dollars can we raise and waste. How much difference will that make in social progress? In ten years consumers will convert to disciplined customers and prosumers. People that choose to produce more than they consume and put it on market at prices poor can afford. In ten years corporate power will de centralize and move back to informed people as has been promised for a hundred years by those consolidating corporate power. In ten years people will dare to say no.

In ten years forgiveness will be a political option and cause of violence will receive more attention than violence we now call news. In ten more years there will be such a wholesale de centralization of power, political, religious and economic, whole earth will sigh with relief.

Few today feel free enough to imagine such a future but then, future has never depended on many. It has depended on visionaries and corruption of their visions by war and power mongers. They have had their day. Their work is done. The corporate puppets that pass for government are dying off and giving up. Wisdom is replacing rhetoric and popularity, winning new supporters and contributors every day. If you can't see it, perhaps you haven't really been looking. As we approach what seems to be end of civilization, we begin to appreciate joke that has passed for civilization for six thousand years. It dawns on us all that we finally have a chance to declare global bankruptcy in all areas of life and truly make a fresh start.

Christian Scripture, corporate power and current events all argue that things will get much worse before they get better. The end time message is: prepare, prepare, prepare. Take it or leave it!