{"id":3056,"date":"2021-12-26T07:40:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T12:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/?p=3056"},"modified":"2025-08-01T09:01:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:01:58","slug":"the-freedom-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/the-freedom-of-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Freedom of Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019m never really one for year-end lists and I promise, this isn\u2019t one of those. Though while reading one of those lists I got triggered with an ah-ha moment. A \u201cbest advice\u201d had a quote from philosopher Alan Watts: \u201cYou are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.\u201d&nbsp; \u2013 wow, that resonated\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a coach, we use perspective to bring new awareness to our clients \u2013 with the intention of bringing them to a place of choice to do something different with the new awareness or new knowledge which has been created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me, the quote brings the perspective of time. This moment is different than the last moment and we are under no obligation to be the same as we were. Flipping that around \u2013&nbsp;<em>no obligation<\/em>&nbsp;creates the notion of choice \u2013 we can make a choice to explore something new or try something different in the next moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is the gift of choice we have \u2013 in every moment. Not to say it\u2019s easy, and not to say we can always do that, but even recognizing that we have that freedom of choice, can open new possibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What will that choice bring for you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m never really one for year-end lists and I promise, this isn\u2019t one of those. Though while reading one of those lists I got triggered with an ah-ha moment. A \u201cbest advice\u201d had a quote from philosopher Alan Watts: \u201cYou are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.\u201d&nbsp; \u2013 wow, that resonated\u2026 As a coach, we use perspective to bring new awareness to our clients \u2013 with the intention of bringing them to a<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/the-freedom-of-choice\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"category-coaching.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4676,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions\/4676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdittman.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}