Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life

Primary choices are the choices about major results. This is a choice about a result you want in itself and for itself.

An exercise in primary choice:
1. Make a list of everything you want, from now through the rest of your life.
2. Re-read your list and make sure it contains all the major components of what you want.
3. Test each item with: "If I could have that, would I take it?". Formally choose each item you want with "I want this result...".
4. Continue until you have chosen every item you truly want on your list.

Secondary choices support the attainment of primary choices. You may make several a day, and some of them may be strategic.

Creative people use their firm knowledge of the hierarchy of their choices to choose between long-term goals and short-term distractions.

Fundamental choice has to do with a state of being or basic orientation, and is the foundation of your primary and secondary choices. It is the choice to the owner of your own success, to be primarily responsible for your results.

Making the fundamental choice to be the primary creative force in your own life is the foundation for the entire orientation of the creative. With this choice, endeavor changes from "attempts to regain emotional stability" to "actions to bring into the world the full realization of the vision you hold."

The path of least resistance in the creative orientation leads towards behavior consistent with creating what you want to create.

Consider making the following four fundamental choices:
1. To be the predominant creative force in your life
2. To be true to yourself
3. To be healthy (physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually)
4. To be free.