Choosing Who You Want To Be

I just saw the new Jumanji movie and I gotta say it was really really good. It also had a surprising lesson that I thought was perfect for the new year. Only thing is, I hope it is not a spoiler, well just in case I’m going to give a minor spoiler warning. Choosing who you want to be is a great step in life.

So as you may know in the movie Jumanji the board game turns into a video game and the players that play the game get sucked into the video game world and become the avatars they choose. The nerdy kid becomes The Rock, the shy girl becomes Karen Gillian, the big jock becomes Kevin Hart, and the attractive instagram teenage girl becomes Jack Black. Since this movie takes place in a video game, I’m going to focus on one lesson that I got out of it.

You see in all video games we get to choose our character and most of the time the character is buff or very attractive, very fit characters and a cliché in video games is that the main character is normally the best at something. And it is easy to be brave when the worst that could is a game over screen but yes in real life, we do have just one life but that’s why we have to make it the best life possible. And yes in video games you get to choose your character but in real life we get to choose our characters as well. You want to be buff or be fit, find someone who is at your goals and ask them how they did it and take good notes and repeat their plan, you might find other things that work better for you along the way but it’s a good start. You want to be brave, face your fears.

I just put out a video a couple days ago where a woman for 100 straight days faced her fears. There are maybe some things that we don’t have control over like our race, our height but we have complete control over who we decide to become right now. Every single day we are faced with choices, so pick your character, who do you want to be? The choice is yours.