Decide
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From Latin decidere (“de” = off + “caedere” = to cut).
To cut off all other options.
A decision literally means severing alternatives to commit fully to one path.
No hedging, no maybes, no keeping doors open.
Easy Decision Tutorial
To make a decision:
- List the other possible paths
- Kill them in your mind
- Learn to be okay with it... or don’t
- Decide anyway
If you don’t, you take the only wrong path in life: staying stuck intentionally.
Why “Not Deciding” Slowly Kills Your Business and Your Life
Every time you hesitate, every time you avoid making the decision, you pause a part of your life.
You decide to slow yourself down... for nothing.
Pausing is the hidden decision you make when you choose fear over bravery. And that would be fine if everybody did the same as you on the same subject.
But some people choose to brave the fear, kill options, and commit. These people get ahead of you. Whether you like it or not, it’s a race in which the ones who decide fastest win.
To drive this home, let’s compare 3 fictional people. Someone who makes one big decision:
- a month — “Month Guy”
- a week — “Week Guy”
- a day — “Day Guy”
Month Guy: 12 big decisions/year
Week Guy: 52 big decisions/year
Day Guy: 365 big decisions/year
Day Guy goes through life 7x faster than Week Guy.
That’s got to be hard to hear for Week Guys.
But even harder would be for Month Guy to hear.
Day Guy goes through life 30.41x faster than Month Guys.
If You’re a Week Guy
You’re already moving pretty fast, but you can go faster.
Going 7x faster in life is possible.
Train making better, faster decisions.
BTW, training means failing enough times so you learn how not to fail.
You’ll fail. That’s expected. The question is, “Will you stop?” or “Will you learn?”
If You’re a Month Guy
You’re not hard enough on yourself, so I’ll be hard on you for your sake:
You’re pathetically slow.
You complain about not getting what you want out of life as if you don’t know why.
Here are the truths you need to face:
- Either you know it, which means you’re an incapable, lazy, fearful coward who needs to go through hard shit to wake the f*ck up.
- Either you don’t know it, which means one of your favorite coping mechanisms is denial or avoidance, which makes you really weak and useless to other human beings.
Either way, you need to be harder on yourself, make promises to yourself, and force yourself to keep them.
Choose something hard for your standards and go prove to yourself you can do this hard sh*t every day for an extended period of time.
In other words, learn discipline.
Then, making better, faster choices will be easier.
You’ll see.
Final Words to Humans Reading Things
If you’re not a quadriplegic, mute, blind person, you can do this just by showing up and trying hard.
If you’re a quadriplegic, mute, blind person, wait 10 years for Neuralink to work well, then show up and try hard.
Excuses are never present by default. That’s why we have to find them before using them.