1 – Identify – Identify precisely what the specific issue is that you need to address here & now.
2 – Understand – Look at your present context & understand the real reason you need to fix this now.
3 – Learn – Critique your way through a few reasonable ways to get the job done given your present circumstances.
4 – Apply – Choose your best option and boldly implement your strategy with confidence!
Think. Commit. Succeed.
When you are looking for energy to fuel conviction, take care to draw upon only positive & principle-based sources; avoid the trap of tapping into negative drivers like defiance or resentment, no matter how powerful they may seem.
There may be times when circumstances dictate that you absolutely must compromise.
Whenever this happens, make the best of it by engineering a scenario where what needs to be sacrificed is simply some perceived comfort, traded off for the benefit of strategically adapting to your current context.
Just have a care that you never permit compromise to be a matter of relinquishing or sacrificing your principles. Ever.
Consider this deeply: Treat intelligently managing compromise as investing in your future, not acquiescing to your present.
Live every day in such a way as to have reason to be proud of what you’re becoming!
When you’re truly committed, it shows through in every little thing.
For really effective decision-making, the trick is to know and balance these three things:
Your Standards – they don’t really exist anywhere but in your own mind.
So for them to have any real value, they need to be lived every day.
Unless you live your own Standards day to day, they simply revert back to ideas, which soon dissolve into mere memories.