How often do you choose your own adventure?

If you’re familiar with the genre of choose your own adventure books, then you know that they’re based on decisions you get to make while reading the story. And how the story ends depends upon the choices you make.

Quick segue – if you’re not familiar with choose your own adventure books, I highly recommend you read one.

Choosing your own adventure is all about making decisions while being uncertain about the outcome. While this might sound unsettling, if you think about it, then you’ll quickly realize that only a tiny percentage of the decisions you make have guaranteed outcomes.

Choosing your own adventure is about intentionally stepping into the unknown – it forces you to pay attention. It’s about leaving the path of fictional guaranteed results and exploring new ways of being and doing.

When you lean into choosing your own adventure, you’ll begin to develop new skills, and your perspective of life and how you view the world around you will begin to change. And unlike the books, there’s no going back to where you started.

Choosing your adventure is not something I recommend you do daily because that would lead to a chaotic and unpredictable existence, and that wouldn’t be helpful for your mental or physical well-being. But it’s absolutely something I recommend you do on a regular basis, even if it means scheduling it on your calendar.

So, commit today to make time to choose your adventure. Start out small if you need to. Perhaps even something as harmless as driving an unfamiliar route or speaking with a stranger. Anything that you’re unprepared for and makes you a little nervous. Shift your life from the ho-hum of knowing what’s next to the oh wow, excitement of choosing your own adventure.

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