Within these pages, you will find catalysts for self-evaluation and self-empowerment. Since we control our choices, we control our power and therefore control the measure in which we apply that power. Everything you have been, everything that you are now, and everything you will be all comes down to the choices you have made. Choices are very powerful, just one good one or bad one could be life-changing. This book is meant to be a reference guide; something you can come back to periodically after you have finished reading it and can hopefully assist you in making the right choices for yourself. When you realize that your destiny can be steered in whichever direction you choose, you are taken one step closer to self-realization. Choices gets deep into real life issues that we all face, such as, the influence of family and friends and how they affect your choices, how important setting goals is because it gives you something to reach for, what achieving happiness means to you as opposed to what it means to someone else, and at least a dozen more subjects that seem to either hold us back or push us forward. This is not a self-help book, nor a self-development book, this is a self-empowerment book. It is time that we empower ourselves because at the end of the day, our own abilities, our own ideas, our own work-ethic, is all we have to propel us toward our destiny. Even though this book delves into many different subjects, there is one primary objective, to provoke serious thought about the choices we are making and seek out ways to make better choices in order to make a better world. What we become in life is a choice and this book gets into how these choices affect us and how the smallest choices can make the biggest difference. This is a self-empowerment book for any age, race, background, or religion. These are universal principles that we all must live by and that we have experienced at one time or another. Touching on subjects such as the influence of family and f