Choices

How do you make your choices along life's paths?  What would you choose in order to advance your career life?  Your marriage?

Do you make these choices based on what is good for you?  Or what is good for other people?

Are the choices based on your talents?  Or what you wish to learn?

I have read a few interesting articles recently that seem to give some advice on this matter:

• Practice does not make perfect all the time.  It isn't always about what you want to achieve and how you strive for it.  It is also about what you have been gifted to do.  Some people can try all they want and not achieve in something ... although these people are likely to be good at something else instead.
  
• Focus on God.  You can screw up your life by giving into temptations.  By being distracted from what you are called to do.  Worship God, identify the distractions and put them away, and be responsible for your own spiritual health.
  
• The best part about life is realising why something didn't work out.  We are happier when things work out, of course, but there are lessons to be learned along the way.  Eg. friends we shouldn't trust, goals we shouldn't aim for ... don't feel like a failure because it didn't work out; instead, learn from these lessons.

Do you think so?  Do you think such advice is right?  What would God want to teach you?  Are you willing to learn?  How will you make your next set of choices now that you have read this?