Why are the people losing their choices?

Having choices should always be important to everyone.

Choices are more than going to your local deli and making a decision between ham or turkey. Choices are made on a wider spectrum of topics such as relationships, occupations, mortgages, and supporting political parties, choices are never ending.

Choices happen to you all day long, and most of the time you are constantly making them based on your present setting.

So how are you losing your power? Is losing choices a lack of reversed communication? Who are the powerful decision makers, the voters or the government officials?

What part does the media influence with losing choices? What influences the people’s decisions regarding political issues and voting preference? Losing choices should not be optional. Now is the time for every voter to think about their choices of electing officials? Having a choice is powerful, a choice is the right, power, or opportunity to choose.

Many people underestimate their power. It is sometimes difficult to choose. Especially between good things that you want. So much goes into a choice. Your upbringing, personal or professional experiences, feelings, need or want or education. Everyone is faced with thousands of basic, or complex choices.

Have you considered the decisions of your lawmaker or yourself that can have a domino effect upon another individual in life that can truly impact them for better or worse, depending on the matter.

Decisions are tough to make because you really don’t know the initial severity and/or outcome of the objective facing you. For example, an opportunity is presented to you to make an instant choice.

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Acting immediately and making an instant choice can possibly be detrimental and negative for your future. However, on the other hand you could make a positive decision and that ultimately leads to success. Choices are tough, and many are based on emotion, but the right choices are made with facts, accurate data and less with what you think and what’s on the minds and hearts of others. This will eliminate the making emotional instant instinct decisions that are not considering the effects of the overall population.

When you lose your

choice, you are in the sense losing basic equality or self-determination in any society if you cannot choose. It is factual that the ability to choose freely from many alternatives is central to one’s identity and daily life. But that ideal simply isn’t important to most of the world, and it can result in losing choices between policymakers and their constituents.

Ultimately the underlying point and matter of keeping your choice is important because it determines you and is used as a driving and fueling factor for things that you will do in the future. Choice is your formula for your life path whether it is the best or worst choice. In comparison to this article being written in a certain font and script, it was a choice. Choices should be well thought out and every outcome of a decision should be thought of. Choices can be simple or difficult, but they are essential.

The impact of what choices can do to you will vary as sometimes the choices even for those who believe and think they are always right can come back and haunt them. Listen to insight, needs and know the facts to make a decision based on all of the information provided to make the best decision.

Always share the factors of communication with family members, friends, and members of one’s social and professional circles as a decision maker.

Sherry Holliman is a concerned citizen of Crittenden County and has some views on a variety of topics that she wants to share with her neighbors.

She serves on the Marion City Council.

It’s s sure sign that the new school year is almost upon us… new teacher orientation. Teachers new to the West Memphis School District got their first on-campus experience earlier this week as they gathered in the Academies of West Memphis cafeteria to receive vital information about the upcoming school year.

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