Rebooting Your Brain

CHAPTER 6For Your Reboot: The Power of Choice Is Your Most Important Asset

There are two things that separate us, as humans, from virtually everything else on the planet. The first is opposable thumbs (a trait we share with a handful of primates, koala bears, and some South American tree frogs). However, it's the second trait that truly makes us uniquely human. It is our ability to process information and make conscious choices based on it.

Our power of choice is our greatest asset in life. It's our ability to choose that enables us to reboot our thought process and forever improve our life. It gives us the ability to steer, move, and guide our life in any given direction. Regardless of circumstances, situations, hardships, history, or obstacles, we have the ability, the power, and, most important, the responsibility to choose the way we interpret them and how we respond.

Certainly, some people will have advantages that we don't have. Others will face obstacles that we don't. Our ability to choose is the greatest equalizer in life. The choices we make enable us to level the playing field and find ways to succeed regardless of circumstance.

More than 200 years ago, the great statesman Thomas Jefferson said,

“We are all born with the equal ability to be unequal.”

Regardless of where we find ourselves today, we can be someplace different, someplace better tomorrow. However, the only way we will get there is by changing ourselves first. This is why our rebooting process is essential ...