Seven Ways That Choice Makes Your Life Hell

Do you think that having more choices is good for you?

Choice is critical to the feeling and practice of freedom. Without choice, you would be doing exactly what you’re told to do, every moment of the day.

You’d be following your programming like a machine with no soul.

A kind of pretend choice is […]

Seven Ways That Choice Makes Your Life Hell, Part 2

Very few things in this world are one-sided, all good or all bad. In Part 1 of this series I introduced the idea that the extraordinary human power of choice can lead us into our own personal hell.

Barry Schwartz has written an insightful book on the dark side of choice, called The Paradox of […]

Three Ways to Escape Confusion and Take Control

Out of Control? Are you in control of your life? Life is wonderful, and dangerous and unpredictable.

Sure, you pretend that you have everything under control. But you know that’s not true.

Pretending to be in control makes you feel safe. And everyone wants to feel safe.

It’s hard to think about personal growth, […]

Four Tools to Take Control of Your Life

 

In the first two articles in this series, we explored seven ways that choice becomes a burden and a problem in your life.

Then, in the third article, we introduced three tools you can use to overcome those seven problems, and get back control of your life.

Here, we present four […]