Welcome to what drives you. I'm Kevin Miller in this episode, Choice. Having it and wanting it are two different things.

I've been intrigued by the sudden superhero concept for a long time. Peter Parker gets bitten by a spider and turns into Spider-Man.

Bruce Banner gets exposed to radiation, turns into the Hulk.

Some other guy or girl falls into a chemical vat and develop superpowers.

None of them chose for those things to happen.

But in our daily lives, seldom do specific and acute things like that happen just to us.

In most cases, we've got choices to make.

And I find that in seemingly hard circumstances, we'd rather there was just one forced circumstance

that happened. Choosing between what looks like challenging options all around can overwhelm us.

My muse for the topic is the guest from a previous episode, Talia Fox.

She's author of The Power of Conscious Connection, Four Habits to Transform How You Live and Lead.

The beginning of her book, she tells a story of her crying in the stairwell while holding a baby.

She's a single parent to and feeling like she's at the end of a rope.

And after her sobbing subsides, it just finally hits her that something has to change.

And she changes it.

But it brings up this issue of choice and how it feels when we feel backed in a corner

and why sometimes we're not so thrilled with the rah-rah of you have choices.

And I'm not having these conversations about human potential.

I'm working directly with people on their human potential.

You can go to Kevin Miller.co to connect with me.

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