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Carolyn Smagalski
Decision
Founder - Editor - Host
"Once we make our decision, all things will come to us.
Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation.
They are a response," wrote Deng Ming-Dao. Decision is a sign
of action - a sign of commitment. It depends on your ability
to set the wheels into motion.
Any new project can be difficult to begin. Your mind fills
with visions of those who have preceded you, those who have
already accomplished tremendous success, far beyond your own
imaginings. It seems unlikely that you could ever be measured
in the same arena.
But you decide anyway.
Little by little, you make progress. As Abraham Lincoln said,
"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day
at a time." If you clearly understand this, it will enable
you to move forward in small increments, ever aware that
greatness lies in your constant, deliberate action. People
just don't wake up one morning, filled with sudden power and
ability. Ability comes slowly...deliberately...with courage
and the development of optimistic strength.
"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength
to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is
the foundation of integrity," Keshavan Nair tell us. When you
begin to make habitual decisions targeted toward success in
any part of your life, the signs of that success will surround
you. Eventually, you will create a magnetic force that begins
to draw others to you, offering opportunities, both great and
small.
Nicholas Murray Butler wrote, "Optimism is essential to
achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true
progress." Creating an outlook that sees the possibilities
for success is the single, greatest characteristic you can
develop within your own self. It is critical that you do
this.
"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage," wrote Lucius
Annaeus Seneca. These words are most deeply reflective of
life, and of the choices laid out as opportunities.
Test your own level of optimism. If you had three choices
that could markedly alter your life, which would you choose,
and how would you create opportunity from your adversarial
circumstances? Would it be easier to give in and give up, or
would you fight to the finish, giving it your best shot?
Well-developed courage and optimism are an essential for
decision that will result in progress.
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