No escape. Doomed in a way? Perhaps. Wise or even rotten… Unlike animals who operate on instinct, human beings don’t. Every minute of every day during our waking hours we make a kaleidoscope of choices, choices, choices, and more choices! Research at Cornell University estimate that we make around 35 000 decisions daily of which 226.7 are about food alone! These myriads of choices have consequences; actions of which some are helpful and serve us well, while others unfortunately don’t.

For example. Jeremy had a very stressful day at work. He was lazy when he woke up that morning and didn’t do his morning run. It set the scene for his work frustrations. He was impatient with his reporting employees and even humiliated his secretary in front of others when he lost his temper and shouted at her. After having five double whiskeys before supper, he says to himself “Should I have another Whiskey although I have had a lot already? I’m going to! No matter what.”