ONE QUESTION

What pain do you want in your life AND what are you willing to struggle for?

ONE THING TO PONDER

Contemplate the price you pay for inaction and indecision..

ONE PERSPECTIVE

Are you choosing a comfortable low level pain over making a hard decision?

Here are a few questions to ponder:

• If I’m being brutally honest, what am I ignoring that is making my days harder?

• If I’m being brutally honest, what decisions (health, business, relationships, etc) am I not making that are hurting those important areas in my life?

• If I’m being brutally honest, what am I avoiding because my fear of being judged, misunderstood, or not wanting to disappoint others?

My philosophy around a life well lived is to take 100% responsibility for what shows up and how we choose to move forward. 

Sometimes the comfort of a known pain or challenge is easier to stay in than an unknown potentially better situation that causes you to make a decision to change yourself or your situation. 

For today’s topic - You already know what to do, you just haven’t decided to do it.

People come to me for advice often, asking me what they should do. Those conversations are more prevalent when there is uncertainty and/or chaos. Remove. 

It seems to me that we often already have the answer. You actually know the answer of what decision you need to make, but you’re ignoring it because you don’t like the options. 

We often know the direction to take and the decision to make. Yet, we use our desire for more information as a deflection mechanism to avoid having to make the decision.

The right decisions to make are often spoken with a whisper. The challenge with life is that we get the test first, and then the answers are given. 

Right now, there are likely a few areas in life that are requiring a decision…THE WHISPERS you’ve been ignoring:

• Relationship Decision

• Career/Business Decision

• Health Decision

• Physical Decision

Make the decision….the one you know you need to make that you’ve been putting off. You don’t need less fear, you need more courage. 

I know, the time may not seem ideal, yet if that whisper keeps saying to go for it, that whisper won’t go away….ever. 

What will happen though is that if you ignore that whisper for too long, it’s going to eat you up inside and eventually bring you to the place every person wants to avoid at the end of their time….the sphere of regret. 

You’re likely walking around labeling your indecision as something you need more information on, something that requires time you don’t have, it may upset someone, or it’s just not the right time. All of those answers are ‘head’ answers, yet the ‘heart’ answer is the only one that matters. 

I too often see people give away their power in making a positive change and default to 'I don't know.' 

I actually don't believe that you don't know. I believe it’s an avoidance mechanism for making a hard or complicated decision. I know this because I believe I’m like you…we intuitively know, we’re just scared. 

I believe intuitively we know a lot, and we just haven't gotten our logical side on board or built up enough courage to do anything about it...so we just deflect and say "I don't know what to do." If you did know, what advice would you give yourself? 

I'm not suggesting trying to have less fear, I'm suggesting to have more courage.

Are you sitting on a decision that you need to make and just aren't making it? Understand that your indecision could actually be more detrimental than making the wrong one. 

Make the decision, then make the decision right. 

I’ll see you along the way. 

Onward and upward

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