#16 How to Make Quality Decisions ALWAYS

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Life consists of a continuum of a single moment. In that moment, we're constantly faced with challenges, opportunities, activities and routines. Our results or the process we want to reach depend upon the decisions we make in these moments we experience. Of course, there are decisions with a different degree of consequences, like micro decisions, what clothes to wear, which YouTube video to watch, what to add to your coffee, should you buy bitcoin now or later and etc. The minutia. Then there are the macro decisions, like where to live, what to do for a living, do you go to college or start your own business and so on. You would think that only the macro matters, that you would want to pay attention to only the life or death decisions.

But in reality, the quality of your macro decisions get determined by your micro decisions. The small things are the big things, because what you do consistently conditions your brain to adopt certain patterns that you begin to associate as who you are and which begin to recreate themselves in the future. Welcome to the Body Mind Empowerment Podcast, I'm your host Siim Land. And today I want to talk about making quality decisions. Because as we found out, the quality of your decisions determine the results you're gonna get and how successful you're gonna be.

The most important thing I want you to remember is this.

Be prepared. The quality of your decisions depend upon your level of awareness. How conscious you are in the present moment. Can you detach yourself from the situation? Will you be able to control your emotions? And will you still make a rational decision that is aligned with your goals? This is the foundation to making quality decisions because if you've made clear that what you want to accomplish, then between you and the point you want to reach, there are countless of micro and macro decisions that you have to make. It's very difficult to nail all of those decisions because sometimes we behave unconsciously. But if you manage to raise your awareness most of the time, then you're gonna keep making quality decisions more often.

So instead of giving you some simple routines or questions to ask yourself when making decisions, I want to focus more on increasing your level of habitual awareness so that you could start making good decisions on autopilot. So that's the topic of this podcast episode and let's delve into the world of decision making.

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I started to think about what determines your present state of awareness and perspective. I came to the conclusion that it's a five stage cycle that is repeating itself and all the parts are also interconnected with each other. It looks like this. At the top, there are quality decisions. That is where you want to get. Quality decisions require quality thoughts.

The mental narrative you have both during the time you make your decision and at every other moment of the day. Quality thoughts require quality input.

The fuel or the nutrition you feed your mind with. Quality input requires quality habits or systems. The routines and patterns of behavior that you do consistently to make sure you're getting in quality input. Quality habits require quality decisions. Which brings us back full circle to making quality decisions in the moment. As you can see, how good your decisions are depends upon what you think and do. In essence, it's who you are. It's like the ancient symbol of the Yoruboros. The snake biting its own tail. It symbolizes introspection or something constantly recreating itself. And this endless cycle of life. Whatever you've accomplished, whoever you are right now, wherever you are in life, you're there because of the decisions you've made. Of course, you could blame your genetics, your upbringing, your culture, your conditioning or just bad luck, but a much more powerful thing would be to take ownership over everything and use it as something that will actually make you better because of the things that have happened to you. Like Carl Jung said, I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. What got you to this point isn't going to take you to where you want to get. So you need to fundamentally change your entire being. You have to bite your own tail to slay the previous version of yourself and be reborn into the empowered you.

And where do you start?

You start with making quality decisions with this five stage process that I just share with you. So let's begin with step number one. Quality decisions require quality thoughts.