I can primarily look within for total fulfillment, or choose to continue looking for something outside myself.
I can be self-aware and giving, or selfish.
I can look to fulfilling life-long dreams, or satisfy immediate cravings .
I can feel pain, accept it, and let it flow through me, or try to control it and cover it up.
I can be a good caretaker of my body, or look for someone who cares for themself to satisfy me.
I can learn to love as I believe God loves, or I can expect to be loved the way God loves.
I can build myself up and encourage my successes, or I can beat myself up and pick at my weaknesses.
I can catch a bee in the house and let it free, I can kill the bee trapped in the house.
I can see a task I don’t feel like doing as a challenge in discipline, or I can complain about it and avoid responsibility.
I can be right, or I can be understanding.
I can be fast, or I can be gentle.
I can feel good and gloat, or I can feel good and be thankful.
I can have close physical communion or I can just have sex.
I can be humble or I can be depressed.
I can listen because I care about the person, or I can listen because I care what they think about me.
I can be self-assured, or insecure.
I can stay with a feeling, or try to resist it.
I can love the cloudy day, or wish for sun.
I can be, or seek to be.

Brenneman T.  April 18, 2002