Your Story, Your Choices

How to Live Life Like a Choose Your Own Adventure Book

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Remember Choose Your Own Adventure stories? The series of role-playing books were some of my favorites as a child. I’d check them out at my elementary school library, aching in anticipation of reading. What adventures lay hidden inside? What mysteries would I solve? I spent many afternoons nestled between the pages, contemplating which choice to make at the end of each chapter. Option A or Option B?

Confession: I always went with my first choice, then instantly read the other choices after. I wanted to see if I’d made the right decision. I reflected on which storyline worked out best.

Life doesn’t give us that luxury though, does it? When we face a choice, we can’t jump ahead pages to see which is the better outcome.

Each day, we face choices. Some are small, some big. We think about the big ones more because they seem to predict a clearer path to our futures. Take the job? Buy the house? Go back to school? Choices like this promise to lead to someth…