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What is the number one most important thing you have to do if you want to have an amazing life?
You have to do this if you want to have even a good life.
You have to do this even to get a mediocre life.
The better you are at this one thing, the better your life will be.
And if you have epic skills at this one thing, you can have an epic life.
So what is the one thing you have to do in order to have an epic life?
You have to make Powerful Decisions!
The level of power you put into your decisions will determine the level of epicness in your life.
If you make good decisions, you’ll have a good life.
Mediocre decisions – mediocre life.
Bad decisions . . . you see how this works.
So what makes a decision powerful? What’s the difference between a regular decision and a powerful one?
Regular decisions: what I’ll wear, what to have for dinner, what races will I sign up for?
Powerful decisions affect the direction of and quality of your life!
Powerful decisions have 3 steps.
- Decide what you want.
I talked about this 2 weeks ago. You need to do the work to get past your ego and politically correct “wants” to your core and passion.
Sometimes you have to go to what you don’t want and choose the opposite. (Focusing on what you don’t want is a BAD idea.)
Be specific & know your result.
NOT: I want better health, get in shape, lose weight.
Rather: I will weigh under 200# and be able to run/walk 3 mi.
Eg: I want to have a business that gives me the freedom to work from anywhere so I can have adventures around the world. (Brian Hoover)
- I WILL do what it takes to get what I want.
Important: change I want to I will.
Have you ever been around someone who doesn’t like their life and only complains about how miserable they are?
You give them solutions that you know will work, and it’s like they don’t even hear you.
They have a victim mindset. It’s someone else’s fault – Parents. Or bad luck. Evil greedy corporations.
When you make a decision that you WILL do what it takes to get what you want, you take charge of your destiny.
You don’t need to know how you’re going to get what you want. The decision will set your mind to work to figure out how to make it happen.
- Decide to go all the way to the finish.
This comes from the mindset you need to run an ultramarathon.
Decide before the race what it will take for you to DNF.
Risk of permanent injury or death = DNF.
Anything less – Keep moving forward.
You’ll have plenty of reasons to quit.
You need the power of a strong decision to keep going.
Decide that you will keep going until you get what you want.
Making powerful decisions will work for anything you want.
It’s a good idea to spend time to be sure that what you want is going to be worth the effort.
I want an epic life. And I want to be around other people who want an epic life.
You can do more than you ever imagined.
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