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Be Afraid But Do It Anyway by Erna Morgan McReynolds

Choices Lead to Life Changes

The Road Not Taken.” You might have heard or read the poem, written by Robert Frost more than 100 years ago.

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

Has someone ever asked you for advice? Should they move from this company to that one? From one career to another? From one city to another? A dear friend of mine has these questions looming large. Thinking about her choices at 3 a.m., suddenly I remembered several forks in the road I had taken. I had not known what they would mean.

But they made all the difference.

I thought about the decisions I made that I did know would change everything. Immigrating to New Zealand from a tiny upstate New York village would make all the difference. I knew that. But I just didn’t know how.

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