Choices

There are a lot of choices out there, I encounter many people making choices and with the overwhelming myriad of options available it can be overwhelming.  Recently, I was shopping for a wedding dress.  I think it was the 3rd dress I tried on that became the one.  I am not particularly decisive, I can mull over a decision with the best of them.  Two things were in my favor, I know what I do not like, and the dress I wanted was the last one, discontinued and if I wanted it I had to make a hasty decision.  I just thought I would share this video about happiness and the brain.  One of the main ideas from it is,   "We should have preferences that lead us into one future over another.  But when those preferences drive us too hard and too fast because we have overrated the differences between these futures, we are at risk.  When our ambition is bounded, it leads us to work joyfully.  When our ambition is unbounded, it leads us to lie, to cheat, to steal, to hurt others, to sacrifice things of real value.  When our fears are bounded, we're prudent, we're cautions, we're thoughtful.  When our fears are unbounded and overblown, we're reckless and we're cowardly."
Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy? | Video on TED.com

Just thought this was an interesting point of view to share.  It a world where options are endless the way to walk away happy is to limit our options and not put too much weight on the differences between the futures of our choices.  Essentially living in the moment of what is happening and allow what has happened to be just that, what has happened.