Chapter 2Choices
Decisions Determine Destiny
When you believe you have no choice, you become a victim. When enveloped in the paralyzing cloak of victimization, individuals, teams, and organizations surrender control of their destiny. The conscious awareness of choice is life changing and instrumental to achieving what matters most.
The choice to take or not take accountability is solely and exclusively yours to make. It requires a perpetual unfiltered willingness to recognize your realities, take ownership of your circumstances—good or bad—create a way forward and take action to achieve what matters most. Let us explore this further.
Tito was so affable, upbeat, and such a pleasure to be with that nearly an hour went by before I noticed that this man driving me to the conference center was missing four and a half fingers and most of his right hand. My driver, I thought to myself, now a bit alarmed, was missing most of his right hand. His sincere charm and obvious love of his work had so captivated me for sixty minutes that I did not notice.
My interest in learning what had happened to him was percolating inside. But, I thought, how do I ask someone I hardly know a personal question like that?
By this time in our journey together, we knew the names of each other's children—he had five—where they went to school, what we believed were their hopes and aspirations, and we praised them all endlessly. Tito was genuinely interested, and so was I. Two of our children attended Villanova ...
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