Pulse Legacy Archive October 2012 | Page 8

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n my interview with Great by Choice author Jim Collins, I
dared to ask: “When faced with your own question, ‘When
the moment comes—when afraid, exhausted, or tempted—
what choice do we make?”, how would you respond to this
question?”

His response was direct and powerful (read Conversations on page

22). The question is so profound that it made me pause and wonder
whether I, too, would have the courage to make the right—or much
less, best—choice when the
stand up for honesty when
tempted? Would I dare to jump
when afraid to take the first plunge?
Would I make the choice to carry
on when down and exhausted?

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“When the moment
comes—when afraid,
exhausted, or
tempted—what choices
do we make?”

moment comes. Would I be able to

Life is a pile of choices waiting
to be made. Even the most seem-

ingly trivial—should I turn right or head on straight?—could mean the
difference between failing to reach your destination or discovering an
entirely new place.
Choice is a complex but inevitable part of everyday living. It
empowers our innate gift of free will, but at times could make life com-

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plicated. While we can sometimes postpone making life choices, we
can never escape its clutches.

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Ultimately, the choices we make will help define us—our character,
strength, weakness and humanity. I hope, when on a fork on the road,

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I too—like Collins—would have the wisdom and courage to think of
the lifetime of consequences brought upon by my present choices.
How about you? When the moment comes—when afraid,
exhausted, or tempted—what choices do you make?

—MAE MAÑACAP-JOHNSON, EDITOR

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