This week’s question from our portal “Ask Us Anything” comes from Lara.
The most recent Intensive was incredible, but I’m also feeling overwhelmed. There’s so much to do—change my self-image, control my thoughts, visualize, take action, deal with my fear, manage my energy. Where do I even start? What’s the one thing I should focus on first?
The one thing? Your decision.
Everything else flows from that. If you haven’t made a clear, definitive decision about what you want and who you need to become to have it, nothing else matters.
Most people skip this step. They jump right into the how and the what without ever getting clear on the decision itself.
Make the decision first. What do you want? Who do you need to become to have it? And are you 100% committed to that, or are you just interested?
Once you make that decision—and I mean really make it, where there’s no going back—everything else becomes clear.
The decision determines your daily practices. The decision determines which thoughts you entertain and which ones you reject. The decision determines what actions you take.
Without the decision, you’re just collecting techniques. With the decision, everything you learned this weekend becomes a tool you use to manifest what you decided.
So don’t worry about doing everything at once. Just make the decision. One clear, definitive decision about what you’re creating and who you’re becoming.
And then let that decision guide everything else.
Here’s how you know you’ve made a real decision: you stop asking whether you should do it. You stop looking for permission. You stop waiting for the right time.
You just start being that person and doing what that person does.
That’s a decision. Everything else is just thinking about it.
So start there. Make the decision. Everything else will follow.
