MISSISSAUGA, ON--(Marketwire - May 28, 2010) - Reading the newspapers today is like watching an endless parade of bad choices.
Pro athletes taking steroids, Wall Street executives lying to investors, drivers insisting on driving drunk, celebrities visiting rehab like it has a revolving door -- and life coach W. Granville Brown wants people to try to learn from it as best they can.
"There was never a doubt that we live in a media-driven culture," said Brown, a certified life coach and author of Choices, (www.wgranvillebrown.com). "But what we see in the media plays out as if it's an endorsement of the behavior. It seems that we're more interested in the people who screw up their lives than we are with people who are happy and successful. It's as if making good choices is less interesting, and so we wind up with a steady barrage of dysfunctional people. It can create a skewed sense of reality for people, and I think if we are going to continue to maintain a prurient interest in these stories, we should try to do so as people who want to use them as lessons on what happens when we make poor choices."
Brown believes that hidden in those stories are nuggets of personal truth awaiting us all. Temptation -- a big factor in what we see in the media today -- can be valuable because of the potential lessons in how to avoid it.
"All of us, no matter how much we succeed in life or who we are, can still fall prey to temptation, lust, greed and having our faith and beliefs shaken -- if not tumbled," he said. "But in the end, we are people of free will, not puppets, and no one can make us do anything we don't wish to do, as long as we have the faith in ourselves to persevere. The only thing that can elevate our souls is within each of us, and it begins with our choices."
About W. Granville Brown
W. Granville Brown graduated from Hamilton University with a degree in Business Administration. Brown believes a writer's words are his or her voice. He also mentors youth, teaching them that writing is a more powerful outlet for their emotions than other destructive means of expressing themselves.
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