# Chapter 197

Now you have to decide, and you will whether you want to or not, simply because not choosing is not an option as that is a choice within itself. Perhaps it would be more precise to say, what now are your intentions? To be busy or to be productive? I think we have clarified over the last five or six days what busy generally is, and how that contrasts with productive. And yes there are those rare rare people who are busily being productive, but you and I are not one of those people most likely. Most of your busy-ness is self imposed and posturing, and it probably will keep you from being as productive as you wish you were.

Oh and my wife just pointed out to me that there is another side of the coin of busy - lazy and self-indulgent. So perhaps all this conversation about busy hasn’t rang a bell with you because you struggle with laziness, apathy or some kind of self-indulgent behavior that derails your productivity? Only you know you, and only you can choose your intention, your purpose, your passion, your pattern of choices that has brought you to this place in life and given you the life that you want - or don’t want. Yet most of us still have time to change the trajectory of our lives if we find they are not what we really want.

Time to start a new pattern of choices.