Every day we make decisions.  Daily we are confronted with options. We must choose one or the other. We cannot have both. These options include:

• Being bitter versus being better
• Indifference versus decisiveness
• Lukewarmness versus enthusiasm
• "If we can" versus "how we can"
• "Give up" versus "get up"
• Security versus risk
• Coping with evil versus overcoming evil
• Blending in versus standing out
• How much we do versus how much we get done
• Coexisting with darkness versus opposing darkness
• Destruction versus development
• Resisting versus receiving
• Complaining versus obtaining
• Trying versus committing
• Peace versus strife
• Choice versus chance
• Determination versus discouragement
• Growing versus dying
• Demanding more of ourselves versus excusing ourselves
• Doing for others versus doing for self.
• Progress versus regression
• Steering versus drifting
• Priorities versus aimlessness
• Accountability versus irresponsibility
• Action versus activity
• Solutions versus problems
• More of God versus more of everything else
• Being in "Who's Who" versus asking "Why me?"

Source: An Enemy Called Average
by John Mason.
Excerpt permission granted by Insight Publishing