Successful, Prosperous People Do One Thing that Others Do Not

They decide.

We make this more difficult than it needs to be. Everything either begins or ends at the point of a "decision." To not decide actually is a decision! It's a decision to not decide ... to not go forward, and there are certainly times when that is wise, because you may not have enough information just yet to make a decision. Or you may have too much information, and you need to slow down, get quiet so you can see what information is for the highest and best.

I thought you might enjoy this video of a live performance I gave about the Power of the Made Up Mind.

There is nothing like the power of the made up mind, and there is nothing like the power of YOUR made up mind!

And I'll bet your family and friends know exactly what I'm talking about when it comes to the times in your life when YOU DECIDED. Maybe that time for you was when you said enough is enough is enough! And "your" enough was so big that you made a deliberate decision to take that plan you'd been mentally fussing over, and make it your next action step.

We all have the capacity within us to say when "it's enough." It is at those junctures that we have all power: that we take back our power.

Why don't we decide?

Research indicates that, from birth to the age of five the average child is told "no" 40,000 times and "yes" only 5,000. Now we all know that in raising children there are things in their environment that are not safe and which they need to be told "no" about. But there is an excessive imbalance here, and what it does to the human psyche is establish a fear toward asking for what one wants, let alone trusting our ability to make decisions. Both men and women suffer from indecisiveness.

We don't decide because we don't trust ourselves to know.

We don't decide because we fear the repercussions of a wrong decision. Repercussions like shaming, blaming, ridiculing. That's why, you see now, authentic power is so vitally important to achieving the dreams you say you have. Until you can stand in a decision, regardless of an immediate outcome or an appearance of failure, you have not yet fully claimed your power. You have the right to decide to the best of your understanding, and you have the right to decide again and again and again. It's not just about one decision, it's about deciding many times within the framework of one moment, one day or one week or one year. People who enjoy the riches of their success make decisions as they allow themselves to receive clarity.

Have you ever lost sleep at night? Tossing and turning, trying to decide. The loss of sleep is about your obsession with the decision you are about to make being the "right" decision. Very often, what our intuition is telling us will conflict with our premature cognitive commitments to the "real world" reality base.

Some people intuitively feel that they would like to decide one way, but their mind jumps in and tries to override. Then there are those who are quick to go with their impulses, without weighing any possible consequences. And so, after many years of finding themselves in one situation after another that has not worked out so well, they are also told not to trust their intuition.

Impulse and intuition are not necessarily the same thing. That's one issue. The other issue is this crazy business of "right" and "wrong" decisions. When Pat Riley was coaching the NY Knicks, he was quoted as saying:

There is no failure, only results.

So let's look at making decisions from that light. I agree, there is no failure, only results. We are consistently guaranteed results. You get results no matter what you do. Indecision is a decision to not decide. In not deciding, you will still get results, and most possibly you will end up the victim of your own demise from not deciding.

Let's say you do decide, and you begin getting results that you do not want. Then you get to decide again and again and again until: until you get the results you want. There is no limit on how many times you get to try, no matter what your family, your friends, or your business associates may condescendingly try to lay on you. You have the right to take as many shots at something as you need to. You will be the one who will succeed when it's all said and done. People who decide to follow their soul's desire will find a way. And the power of this is incredible, for when you decide, you literally set energy in motion.

When you can totally stand in your decision, especially when the rest of the world is basically telling you that "you are totally crazy for wanting something better, you should be happy with what you have. You've got a roof over your head, you're driving a car. What more could a person want?" Or, "Who do you think you are? You don't need to be rich. You don't need fancy cars and fun stuff like that." Or, "What do you mean you are going to live in the back seat of your car if you need to in order to give your dreams the biggest chance and commitment possible?"

When you can stand in a decision after all of that is launched at you, either from another person or as a result of your own thinking, you have all power - all power -and I mean that.

Sometimes we make errors in our decisions, that's true. There are several reasons for this. The most common reason may be that we didn't slow down and take several steps back. We let someone or something pressure us into a fast, emotional decision. This is definitely about giving your power away.

If someone can touch on a place inside of you that is not resolved or whole, then you can be triggered into making a fast decision based on emotions and then have remorse, which again only builds more distrust in yourself that you can in fact make a decision. So the first thing is to acknowledge that you want to snap out of it! You can visualize yourself as choosing to be awake and aware in all your transactions. You also can decide that you will give yourself whatever time you want or need to make an informed decision.

Just remember this: unless someone's life is in immediate danger, there is probably never going to be a situation that requires you to make a fast, emotional decision.

- Excerpt from MasterMinding for a Rich Life.

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Mary Robinson Reynolds
Founder of Heart Productions & Publishing
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