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The charming Zamboni machines

By In You

I have a soft spot for Zamboni machines.

They’re big, slow, and seemingly awkward, yet there’s something majestic about them — like the elephants of the ice rink.

After each intense period of play, the ice surface scuffed and uneven, the Zamboni glides onto the rink, restoring it and leaving behind a flawless sheet of ice cold, smooth, and pristine.

Here’s the magic

Every night we are granted the same gift of a clean slate, a new sheet of ice. Every new morning we wake up to a freshly resurfaced day ready for us to start anew.

As we step onto that freshly resurfaced day, our decisions and moves lead to the next, creating the rhythm that shapes not just our next 24 hours, but also the 24 hours that follow.

Over time, a rhythm of envisioned progress, meaning, and growth forms.

The beauty lies in the simplicity of it all

The next time you see a Zamboni in action, take the time to appreciate what it reminds you of: Each day is a fresh start, the opportunity to decide how we glide across it, the game we play, and the potential for growth and control we embrace.
The decision is yours alone, to each their own. No-one else and no other word can decide it for you.

How will you skate on today’s freshly smoothed ice?

If you struggle with how to skate, you can book one of my 1 on 1 calls. I look forward to getting to know you over a virtual cup of coffee during which we’ll together find out how I can help you with bespoke solutions for a better life. My simple method will change you…only in ways you want to change.

If you enjoy my post, consider supporting my work by preordering my upcoming new book, THE MIRACLE OF VISION, from Amazon when it’s available at the beginning of March 2025 with a huge 30% temporary preorder discount. Mark your calendar, now is a great time to take advantage.

The charming Zamboni machines

The charming Zamboni machines

I have a soft spot for Zamboni machines.

They’re big, slow, and seemingly awkward, yet there’s something majestic about them — like the elephants of the ice rink.

After each intense period of play, the ice surface scuffed and uneven, the Zamboni glides onto the rink, restoring it and leaving behind a flawless sheet of ice cold, smooth, and pristine.

Here’s the magic

Every night we are granted the same gift of a clean slate, a new sheet of ice. Every new morning we wake up to a freshly resurfaced day ready for us to start anew.

As we step onto that freshly resurfaced day, our decisions and moves lead to the next, creating the rhythm that shapes not just our next 24 hours, but also the 24 hours that follow.

Over time, a rhythm of envisioned progress, meaning, and growth forms.

The beauty lies in the simplicity of it all

The next time you see a Zamboni in action, take the time to appreciate what it reminds you of: Each day is a fresh start, the opportunity to decide how we glide across it, the game we play, and the potential for growth and control we embrace.
The decision is yours alone, to each their own. No-one else and no other word can decide it for you.

How will you skate on today’s freshly smoothed ice?

If you struggle with how to skate, you can book one of my 1 on 1 calls. I look forward to getting to know you over a virtual cup of coffee during which we’ll together find out how I can help you with bespoke solutions for a better life. My simple method will change you…only in ways you want to change.

If you enjoy my post, consider supporting my work by preordering my upcoming new book, THE MIRACLE OF VISION, from Amazon when it’s available at the beginning of March 2025 with a huge 30% temporary preorder discount. Mark your calendar, now is a great time to take advantage.

We don’t make choices, we make decisions.

By In You

That we don’t make choices, that we’re reduced to making decisions, implies that choice and decision are not the same.

That’s explained by the fact we know that saying of two words that they are the same is nonsense, and saying of one word that it is identical to itself makes no sense.

What do you think? Is this true for you?

Either way, let’s look at decision and choice separately.

Choice

Beyond the shadow of doubt, choice is what you’re looking at: A word.

In that sense, it is no different to everything else you feel, see, hear, smell, touch, taste, and know.

To think choice isn’t a word presupposes that words have organs. But words don’t have organs, they are completely void of organs.
The one with organs is you, the word-user. And what the word-users do with words is we give them meaning.
We also make them unrecognizable for reasons only the grammarians know.

Infinite

Choices are infinite.

They include energy, planets, fire, air, earth, water, cells, 390,000 plants, 8.7 to 16 million animals, eyes, brains, words, word-users, light, dark, hot, cold, beginning, end, mountains, valleys, rocks, elements, muses, music, color, rhythms, dances, circumstances, Circum’s dances, feelings, sights, sounds, smells, touches, tastes, time to wake up and complain, time to wake up and not complain, every invention ever made, and everything not listed here, to name a few.

Yet some word-users that are fooling themselves pretend that we’re making choice. It doesn’t make sense.

But that’s not all that doesn’t make sense.
Word-users also mistake choice for possibility, opportunity, and option. At the risk of repeating myself, despite the fact that saying of several words they are the same is nonsense, and saying of one word it is identical with itself makes no sense.

We make decisions

Decision is Latin pronounced in English.

Had it been translated to English, it would be cut off. If it were cut off instead of decision, more word-users than now would know what it means. But it’s diffcult to turn the clock back to when Tyndale and Shakespeare invented English, so I guess we’re stuck with decision.

What do you think?

Imagine every flower on Earth blooming on a single field. That gives you an approximate picture of infinite choice.

Now imagine yourself equipped with a pair of scissors. You’re in the process of cutting off flowers for the vase on your dinner table. That gives you an equally approximate picture of decision.

When a lamb is lost in the mountains, it cries. Sometime comes the mother. Sometime the wolf. The same thing happens when you don’t know the difference between choice and decision. Because other word-users can take advantage of your ignorance.

You can decide between being kind and being right. Decide being kind and you will be always right.

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. You know what you know. You’re the one who’ll decide where you’ll go.” – Theodor ‘Dr. Seuss’ Geisel

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We don’t make choices, we make decisions.

We don’t make choices, we make decisions.

That we don’t make choices, that we’re reduced to making decisions, implies that choice and decision are not the same.

That’s explained by the fact we know that saying of two words that they are the same is nonsense, and saying of one word that it is identical to itself makes no sense.

What do you think? Is this true for you?

Either way, let’s look at decision and choice separately.

Choice

Beyond the shadow of doubt, choice is what you’re looking at: A word.

In that sense, it is no different to everything else you feel, see, hear, smell, touch, taste, and know.

To think choice isn’t a word presupposes that words have organs. But words don’t have organs, they are completely void of organs.
The one with organs is you, the word-user. And what the word-users do with words is we give them meaning.
We also make them unrecognizable for reasons only the grammarians know.

Infinite

Choices are infinite.

They include energy, planets, fire, air, earth, water, cells, 390,000 plants, 8.7 to 16 million animals, eyes, brains, words, word-users, light, dark, hot, cold, beginning, end, mountains, valleys, rocks, elements, muses, music, color, rhythms, dances, circumstances, Circum’s dances, feelings, sights, sounds, smells, touches, tastes, time to wake up and complain, time to wake up and not complain, every invention ever made, and everything not listed here, to name a few.

Yet some word-users that are fooling themselves pretend that we’re making choice. It doesn’t make sense.

But that’s not all that doesn’t make sense.
Word-users also mistake choice for possibility, opportunity, and option. At the risk of repeating myself, despite the fact that saying of several words they are the same is nonsense, and saying of one word it is identical with itself makes no sense.

We make decisions

Decision is Latin pronounced in English.

Had it been translated to English, it would be cut off. If it were cut off instead of decision, more word-users than now would know what it means. But it’s diffcult to turn the clock back to when Tyndale and Shakespeare invented English, so I guess we’re stuck with decision.

What do you think?

Imagine every flower on Earth blooming on a single field. That gives you an approximate picture of infinite choice.

Now imagine yourself equipped with a pair of scissors. You’re in the process of cutting off flowers for the vase on your dinner table. That gives you an equally approximate picture of decision.

When a lamb is lost in the mountains, it cries. Sometime comes the mother. Sometime the wolf. The same thing happens when you don’t know the difference between choice and decision. Because other word-users can take advantage of your ignorance.

You can decide between being kind and being right. Decide being kind and you will be always right.

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. You know what you know. You’re the one who’ll decide where you’ll go.” – Theodor ‘Dr. Seuss’ Geisel

>>> What’s your view on this? <<<
>>> Reshare if you agree <<<

For your FREE copy of the DECIDE QUOTES WORTH READING TWICE, click on the ebook cover above.

#ChoicevsDecision #personaldevelopment #personalbranding