Master Your Decisions : A Practical Guide to Make Better Decisions and Stack the Odds in Your Favor (Mastery Series Book 10)

by Thibaut Meurisse

Your beliefs dictate what you think you can and cannot do. They act as a filter through which you perceive the world. As such, they inevitably affect your behavior. Empowering beliefs inspire you to move toward your goals. Meanwhile, disempowering beliefs make you feel powerless and prevent you from acting—or make you act in inefficient and ineffective ways.

Everything is possible, Everything is learnable, and Every problem has a solution.

Many people fail to realize that self-confidence is connected to self-discipline. By completing small tasks repeatedly, we begin to trust ourselves. As a result, our confidence will increase, and we will be able to tackle bigger goals. Put differently, self-confidence is a habit. Keep promises to yourself again and again and your confidence will inevitably grow.

We live in a world of probabilities.

In truth, most decisions exist on a spectrum of probabilities, from extremely unlikely to extremely likely.

One thing that enabled me to reach most of my goals in the past ten years is the realization that I don’t have time and that I must move fast. I’m a dreamer—but a practical one. I don’t merely daydream or engage in wishful thinking. I commit. I turn my dreams into goals and take responsibility for their achievement.

Building extreme speed of implementation is key to achieving our goals. We should strive to reduce the time gap between the moment we have an idea and the moment we implement it in the real world. What often prevents us from doing so is various fears and misconceptions.

A. Be impatient short term but patient long term

It means you must act every day with a sense of urgency.

In other words, act each day as if you don’t have time.

the cost of indecisiveness is higher than the cost of immediate action.

By being more decisive, you spend less time in your head and more time living in the real world. You face reality and expose your internal monologue for what it is: distorted and unhelpful.