Do you sometimes find yourself thinking that you don’t have a choice? Your circumstances and obligations seem to prevent you from taking any course of action except for one. But the thing is, we always have a choice. We choose all the time. Life is made up not of the big choices we have to make but of the little, compounding choices we make on a daily basis. So what choice will you make today? You choose.

In this You Are Not a Frog Quick Dip, Rachel delves into choice. She shares the one thing healthcare professionals get wrong about choice and why we find its concept difficult. She discusses the concept of the Zone of Power and how it can help us assess what's in and out of our control in making choices. At the end of the day, we only have one wild and precious life — it's your choice how to spend it.

If you want to know how to begin making choices with unclouded acceptance, tune in to this episode!

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

1. Discover what it means to live a wild and precious life.
2. Learn how to get out of the victim mentality that we don’t have a choice.
3. Understand the concept of the Zone of Power.

Episode Highlights

[00:29] You Choose!

[01:36] Making Choices

[04:17] Living a Wild and Precious Life

[06:14] What Healthcare Professional Get Wrong about Choice

[07:34] Recognising Your Zone of Power

[09:02] Choice and Losses

[09:36] Embracing Serenity

[10:44] Why We Find the Concept of Choice Difficult

[12:56] Regrets of the Dying

[14:33] Zone of Power Exercise

Resources

• You Choose! by Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart
• The Summer Day by Mary Oliver
• The Choice by Edith Eger
• Loss and Gain by John Henry Newman
• You Are Not A Frog Episode 123: How to Live With No Regrets with Georgina Scull
• Regrets of the Dying by Georgina Scull
• Stay within your zone of power through the Zone of Power handout.
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