You make choices every day. Some are good, some are bad. The bad ones are what break you.
Living healthily and happily requires you to make good decisions.
- Going to bed early
- Eating three healthy meals per day
- Planning ahead
These are all examples of good decisions. Bad decisions are the results of your weaknesses.
- Going to bed late / not sleeping enough
- Not eating enough / eating too much
- Staying in a bad relationship
These are all examples of bad decisions. And I’m willing to bet that you make bad decisions every day even when you know they’re wrong. Hell, I do it too.
This is a consequence of poor priority management. You value your own comfort and satisfaction more than your long term goals, if you even have any.
And all of it fuels regret. If you continue to make poor decisions, your life will be filled with it and it will cloud your everyday thoughts.
The 70/30 rule
30% of your success will come from making the right decisions, and
70% of your success will come from avoiding the wrong ones.
Take a sheet of paper right now. I’m serious, stop reading after you read this paragraph. Write down every bad decision you’ve made today, big or small. Write down what went wrong and why it went that way. You’ll start to see a pattern.
Odds are, most of your poor choices are branching from 2-3 identifiable weaknesses. Maybe you didn’t do well on an exam because you couldn’t pull away from the TV all week. Perhaps your pride made you start a verbal fight with a friend over something stupid.
Whatever your weaknesses are, learn to identify when they’re getting in the way of your decision making.
For now I must go, but I will continue this topic later.
Until next time,
Matt
The Village Idiot 