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I am inspired to write this as I often hear people say they have no choice, yet this sense of choice or autonomy is a fundamental requirement for human happiness. The latest neuro research tells us that if we perceive choice, then our brains indicate to us that we are happy.

This seems quite simple and at the same time really hard to get right. How do we create choice for ourselves if we are in a system, a family one or an organisational one, where many decisions are collective and sometimes not ours? How do we provide ourselves the opportunities where we can sit in choice and decide what it is that we want and what outcomes we would like to achieve?

The starting point is to choose “choice”. It is an un-empowered mind-set that believes we have no choice. Choice is a state of the mind. Every minute, of each day, we are choosing how we think, feel and how we react to our world and the people in it. When we realise that choice is ours, our energy lifts and our sense of wellbeing increases.

When our energy rises and our sense of happiness and wellbeing increases, we are able to see many more perspectives and many different options, giving us even more choice.