“I don’t have a choice.” Man, if there’s one thing that just gets me, it’s hearing people say this. Why? Because it’s simply not true. Now, before you start throwing all kinds of examples of situations where you really didn’t have a choice, hear me out. Let’s take a relatively common situation in which someone would feel they didn’t have a choice: You and your husband have just been blessed with twins. As your maternity leave dwindles down, you start looking at the realitie

How many times have you gotten in an argument with someone, only to realize halfway through the spat that you made a mistake? How many times did you actually admit your mistake instead of barreling on, continuing to insist you were right to save face? How did you feel about yourself afterward? How do you think the other person felt about you? As human beings, we seem to be biologically programmed with the need to be right. Some definitely have the program more ingrained than