Choices To Increase Personal Welfare

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Choices are made daily, some have an insignificant impact on anyone or their lives, for example, if someone chooses to put their left sock on today first even though they had their right sock in hand, the world probably will not be affected too much. However some choices in the world have a large impact, everyone learns this as they mature and reach adulthood. These choices can be choosing to say the right or wrong thing at a certain time, possibly hurting a career or relationship. To elaborate further, other large choices could be choosing to pay bills or live a life free of crime. These choices need to be thought out with more precision, but how can that possibly be done when all of these miniscule choices are taking up all of your time and energy? What everyone needs to become aware of is while choices are beneficial, too many choices can influence the larger picture and negatively impact life.
The goal in life should be to increase personal
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While this is all good it can lead to some problems. One of the main problems that have resulted from is that everyone has become responsible for all of their life choices, whether or not they are qualified and educated. As Berry Schwartz puts it in a 2005 Ted talk, you will go into the emergency room with a problem and the doctor will present with option A, which has certain benefits and risks, or option B which has certain benefits and risks. The repercussion of this is you, the patient of limited knowledge and understanding of medical procedures, to make a mandatory decision which impacts your health rather than the health care professional who is educated and spends more time with related circumstances. Now you must have some self-conflict as you decide which option suits yourself and will be the most promising to your future

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