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Most Decisions Are Not Permanent
Decisions are not scary unless we let them be. Choose to be decisive.
Few decisions that we make are truly permanent.
I know that, for me at least, on more than one occasion I either made no choice, procrastinated about, or did not fully commit to a decision. Why? Because what if I made the wrong one?
This is why recognizing that few decisions we make are truly permanent is so important to really living our lives.
No matter how much I work on being mindful, and aware of my thoughts, feelings, and actions, it is only a portion of what it takes to do pretty much anything and everything. Conscious or subconscious, the reality we create and live in will be based on choices we decide upon every single day.
Because of the fear of making the wrong decision, a lot of us go through life indecisively. Trouble is, when we allow that to be our reality, we tend to only get partway along any path we choose to travel upon.
Why? Because probably the most important action in any given thought-feeling-action trifecta is the underlying decision.
For example, let’s say that I desire to move to England. That’s the thought, the idea at the beginning. Getting excited about this, basking in how it will feel to make such a drastic, transatlantic move is the…