Decisions only become impactful when we accompany them with action. Make it your habit to take action at the scene of your decision making.

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One Simple Commitment To Make
Your Decisions All-Powerful 18 January 2017
Decisions only become impactful when we accompany them with action.
Make it your habit to take action at the scene of your decision making.
People occasionally ask if I ever follow my own advice.
And the answer is: yes, all the time. Or, at least, I try to.
(Because easier said than done, right?)
And of the qualities of thought that I share with others,
perhaps my favourite to adopt myself is noticing when
I’ve made the decision.
And not just noticing. Noticing. Accepting. Acting upon.
Because the vast majority of the time, we’ve made our
decision. And what’s happening now is hesitation,
uncertainty and fear, disguised as more comfortable and
socially-acceptable thoughts and activities like information
gathering, analysis, “wait and see” and other delaying
tactics.
Getting out of
our own way
Imagine what we’d achieve, if we’d only get out of our
own way and act on our decisions.
And so I love to challenge myself with a simple thought:
“face it, Dan, you’ve made the decision.” And now it’s time
to take action.
Because I know I’m going to take-on that next project. Or
that I’m going to invest in that piece of personal
development I’ve been looking at. Or that I’m going to
leave some job that’s left me exhausted and empty for so
long.
Everything else between decision and action is now just
limiting my achievements.
And noticing my decisions works positively in the other
direction too. I know I’m not going to do some activity. So
drop it. And turn my precious and easily-exhausted
attention to something I am going to do.
Action, at the scene of the
decision
When I spot these impotent decisions, I know my mistake
has been in not setting and taking action at the scene of
my decision making.
And so, in future: that’s the advice I want to adopt for
myself.
A staunch commitment to accompany every decision
with an action. Any action that gets me moving on my
decision.