Why Blog on Making Authentic Choices?

Have you ever made a choice that you knew wasn't genuine, but you went through with it anyway only have to pay a price later? One woman I met told me that she knew on her wedding day that marrying her fiancee was a mistake. While they divorced years later, and she has gotten over the "mistake," what if she, and the rest of us, had more understanding about what we need to make authentic choices? What if we could learn discernment skills that could help us choose? What if we could learn ways to tap into our own inner conflicts around choices that might help us resolve those conflicts before we chose?

This blog offers a forum for dialogue around making authentic choices--what it means to make them, what it feels like to make them, how to make them and the effects of making them. At the outset, that requires learning when to make different choices versus following habitual streams of action. We must also delve more deeply into the differences between authentic and inauthentic choices. We’ll also look at the internal processes that support and hinder choosing from our real selves.

My hope is that, through this dialogue, we learn together how to better make authentic choices, not only for ourselves, but with our friends, families, communities, organizations.