27/12/2023
How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow Iām committed to? What am I going to stand for from now on?
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. Itās not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. Decisions precede actions. It is in the moments of your decisions that you shape your destiny.
Decide who and what you are committed to having and being in your life. This is much more than something you would ālikeā, this is a must, a solid commitment.If you donāt set a baseline standard for what youāll accept in your life, youāll find itās easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life thatās far below what you deserve.
You must know that you can make a new decision right now that will immediately change your life
- a decision about a habit youāll change or a skill that youāll master, or how youāll treat people.
Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.
Realize that decision making, like any skill you focus on improving, gets better the more often you do it. The more often you make decisions, the more youāll realize that you truly are in control of your life.
The 3 decisions that control your destiny are:
⢠Your decisions about what to focus on
⢠Your decisions about what things mean to you
⢠Your decisions about what to do to create the results you desire
Your brain has constructed an internal system for making decisions, which is comprised of five components:
1. Your core beliefs and unconscious rules
2. Your life values
3. Your references
4. Your habitual questions
5. Your emotional states
The scary thing is that most people never consciously set this system up. Instead, itās been installed through the years by sources as diverse as parents, peers, teachers, television, advertisers and the culture at large.
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