For as long I can remember I have utilized William Glasser’s Choice Theory not only in my career counseling practice but, in my personal life as well.
It’s a simple theory that leads to more happiness, greater accomplishments and a more productive existence.
It involves answering three questions:
1. What do you want?
2. What are you doing to get what you want?
3. Is it working?
If the answer is “no” to #3, then:
1. change what you’re doing OR
2. change what you want.
The key is this: Changing what we do is the key to changing how we feel and to getting what we want.
This philosophy can be aptly applied to the business of being your Representative to the Texas House.
The answer to question #1 is KEY to establishing good governance in Austin.
Before we can accomplish anything, we, as a people, must decide what we want.
In counseling, this is always the question that is the hardest to answer. In life, this is the most difficult question, and certainly as citizens, the answers are many and varied. But before we move to questions #2 and #3 we have to answer the question “What do we want?”
Knowing what you want involves having a vision. In that vision, you must be able to see clearly, in great detail, the finished product that is your ideal. You must visualize its every element—its color, its taste, its smell, who’s present in that vision and what happens in that vision. We must have a shared vision before we act.
I want to focus on the present. I don’t want to revisit the past, point fingers in blame, or criticize others in their past attempts to serve their constituents. This is totally unproductive and prevents us from moving forward.
Let’s ask ourselves what do we, as West Texas, want our area to be?
Let’s create a vision.
Let’s visualize every element of that vision and then let’s work together to make it happen.
As your representative, it should NOT be my vision, but our collective vision.
I will merely be the one to work for YOUR VISION in Austin.
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