{"id":1580,"date":"2012-08-13T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2012-02-06T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T20:54:00","slug":"the-power-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/the-power-of-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt of an actual transaction between David and a client in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcoachingtechniques.com\/\">Top Coaching Techniques<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>David: Okay. So that\u2019s a good example. You\u2019re walking on the edge of the concept. You may have it. I just want to check. One great example of this is you decide to bake a cake for somebody. Halfway through baking it, a TV show is on and you start getting pissed off, because you\u2019re baking a cake instead of watching TV.<\/p>\n<p>Client: I do it all the time.<\/p>\n<p>David: Right. That\u2019s called being irresponsible<\/p>\n<p>Client: Yes, that\u2019s exactly what I am.<\/p>\n<p>David: And that\u2019s okay. It\u2019s a human thing, but it\u2019s like, \u2018I decided this and now I wish I were doing something else. Maybe I made a wrong decision then.\u2019 It\u2019s a load of crap. It\u2019s really just a way of making yourself wrong in life.<\/p>\n<p>So, the making a cake is a great example. Now let\u2019s look at a business. You choose a business like the cake \u2013 you choose it. Stuff might come up and you go, \u2018Oh, I wish I was doing yoga right now.\u2019 So, if you say, \u2018I made the choice and this is what I am going to do. This is what I <em>prefer<\/em> \u2013 to have the business over the yoga.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Client: Yeah. I choose and therefore I make a commitment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt of an actual transaction between David and a client in Top Coaching Techniques. David: Okay. So that\u2019s a good example. You\u2019re walking on the edge of the concept. You may have it. I just want to check. One great example of this is you decide to bake a cake for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159],"tags":[280,188,276],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}