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    Three Paths, Three Choices: Getting the Life That You Deserve
    Three Paths, Three Choices: Getting the Life That You Deserve
    Three Paths, Three Choices: Getting the Life That You Deserve
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    Three Paths, Three Choices: Getting the Life That You Deserve

    By Sherry D. Ransom

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    Nowhere on an academic schedule will you find the course Choices 101. Thus, we struggle to make the correct choices to advance our lives in a desired direction. Changing your life direction is not an epiphany but an ongoing process that begins with the selection of particular paths on a daily basis.

    These paths and their obstacles are illustrated in enlightening vignettes as author Sherry D. Ransom introduces the art of making choices and changing your life at any given moment, as well as the three paths of opportunity that await you each day:

    The Checkered Path-You choose not to choose. This choice seems relatively low risk but it is fraught with surprises. Your only goal is to survive another day. The Yellow Path-You choose to continue the low-risk yesterday. Whether you lived yesterday in a state of happiness or depression, you choose to live today in the same manner to avoid surprises. Any fulfillment is fleeting because there is no real pattern or goal. The Green Path-Living life with purpose. You make choices with an eye toward a goal and you have weighed the risks. This path leads to mounting satisfaction.

    Ransom also shares her own inspirational story of growing up without direction and, through determination, finding the path to personal fulfillment. Three Paths, Three Choices will challenge your old patterns of thinking and help you to face your own negativity and unleash the personal power that is yours for the taking.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateSep 29, 2006
    ISBN9780595829156
    Three Paths, Three Choices: Getting the Life That You Deserve
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    Sherry D. Ransom

    Sherry D. Ransom is an award-winning author of 5 books, an international radio personality and an inspiring public speaker. She loves the written word, the spoken word and deciphering the thoughts that form our words and ultimate reality. Find out more about Sherry and her love of the blessing of choice at www.sherryransom.com.

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      Three Paths, Three Choices - Sherry D. Ransom

      Copyright © 2006 by Sherry D. Ransom

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or

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      ISBN-10: 9780595829156 (ebk)

      The Discovery Paths

      The Journey Begins

      Part I Choosing

      WELCOMING THE POWER OF CHOICE

      The Three Paths

      Checkered, Yellow, or Green—You Choose

      The Pretenders

      Mine Fields on the Paths

      Part II Learning

      PUTTING YOUR CHOICES INTO ACTION

      Taking Your Power

      Seizing the Moment by Moment by Moment!

      The Power of Words

      What Did You Say?

      Your Personal Birthright

      Born to Lose—Not!

      Purging Your Environment

      Lose the Losers

      Passion

      Turning the Midnight Oil into an Eternal Flame!

      Personal Power

      You’re the One!

      The Power of Love

      The Beginning of Authentic Power

      Part III Being

      LIVING YOUR DREAM LIFE

      Choosing the Right Path

      Stepping into a New Life

      Seeing Beyond What Is

      Visions of Deserved Grandeur

      Attitude

      Taking Charge and Taking Names

      Change

      Blessings Dressed in Wolf’s Clothing

      Sustaining Passion

      Being as Stubborn as Trick Birthday Candles

      Expect the Best and Be Your Best

      Eagles, Excellence, and Egos

      Confidence—The Dealmaker

      Sitting Tall in the Saddle

      No Apologies Necessary

      A Pinch of Oprah, a Cup of Martha, and Stir

      Gratitude

      Alms, Affirmations, and Amens

      Parting Words—You Are the Miracle!

      That’s My Story and I’m Sticking to It!

      Bibliography

      To my husband, Alfred, a constant source of encouragement and love. To all of my readers, a prayer for new enlightenment and new dreams.

      It’s a Matter of Choice

      The matter of grace,

      The matter of choice,

      We get them so confused.

      The only thing they have in common

      Is that neither can be overused.

      Grace opens the door and makes a way,

      While choice comes along to define the day.

      Refusing to choose is laughing at grace,

      And telling God, ‘No, thank you,’ right to his face.

      Whether you live or whether you die, it’s a matter of grace.

      How you live before you die, it’s a matter of choice.

      Choose well.

      Sherry D. Ransom

      Acknowledgments

      Special thanks to my proofreaders, Alfred Ransom, Laura Osborn Saldivar, and Lee Moczygemba. Your thoughts and comments guided my hand and helped bring this dream to fruition.

      I extend my gratitude to Ellen Smith, who always kept me on the upward path. Your ability to see the gift of manifestation in my life is a gift that I treasure.

      I am also thankful to my children, Duane and Tanya Johnson, who have always supported my many, many dreams.

      To my mother, Verna Chatman, all of my love. I finally understand your journey.

      The Journey Begins

      For almost forty years, the process of succeeding and living my dream life has been a persistent challenge. I became intrigued by the difference between living a good life versus living a great life more than thirty-seven years ago when I met a girl who would become my personal challenger. When I first saw her in Dallas, Texas, I had no idea that she would become such a huge inspiration in my life. I was a senior in high school, headed for college in the fall. My life changed the moment I saw her because she had something that I had never seen before. She was vibrant, self-assured, pretty, and so full of life that she seemed to be in perpetual motion, while I stood transfixed, wrapped in a cloak of shyness and dastardly self-awareness.

      The year was 1966, and our paths crossed because our respective high schools were scheduled to clash in a final game for the state football championship. I was a member of a crowd of onlookers during a pep rally, and she was one of the cheerleaders for her Houston, Texas, high school team. Our eyes met—I would always remember her, and she instantly forgot me. I told myself that I could never have that sparkle of life and self-assuredness that she possessed, although I wanted it so badly. After the pep rally, I felt quite sure that we would never meet again, but destiny had other plans.

      That fall, I left home for the first time and traveled to Washington DC to enroll in college. There were only two Texans assigned to my dorm floor in Crandall Hall—me and the former Houston cheerleader. I learned that her name was Debbie Allen. Although we lived on the same floor, we never formally met. We passed each other in the hall and attended the same freshman welcoming activities. Our eyes met again during a freshman boat ride on the Potomac. My eyes captured every detail, including exactly what she was wearing, and her eyes glanced past me as if I were not really there. I arrived at college with no goal in mind other than to leave my unloving home. She arrived at college with the goal of becoming a theatrical wonder.

      I was not alone in my fascination with her. Soon, the other girls on the floor began to talk about her loving and supportive family and about a picture album that she had that showcased her early achievements in life. It was even rumored that her mother had been an accomplished poet and that Martin Luther King had actually visited her home. I was not surprised to find that she fascinated the other girls as well. When I heard of her loving and supportive family, I had my excuse. I could never succeed the way she would because I lacked the love and support of my family. The wheels for my mediocre journey were solidly affixed to my wagon of life.

      I did not know then what I know now. You become the person you believe you will be. I never tried to choose a career or major in college. Instead, I settled for a major in English literature based on nothing more than I loved to read the literature of the period. Sadly, during that time, I needed to prove that I

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