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Apr 2024
21m 14s

The Art of Conscious Decision-Making

The Successful Mind Podcast
About this episode

Our greatest power is our ability to choose. However, most people weren’t taught how to actually make decisions. Most of the “decisions” we make each day are unconscious—and based on whatever is presented in front of us as options. People often adjust their choices in order to get approval from those around them.

 

We live in a world that’s constantly hijacking our mind, causing us to be in a highly reactive state, responding to all the wild, crazy stuff going on, and going down dark or negative roads. AND many people don’t even know what they want.

 

Instead of making decisions from “the outside in”—we should choose things from “the inside out.” This means we should make decisions based on our desire, our purpose, and what we truly want in life.

 

In this episode, I discuss:

 

  • Our divine ability to choose—and how we’ve been disconnected from this power
  • How I realized my decisions were being controlled by other people who had influence in my life—I was making choices based on what someone else wanted (not what I wanted)
  • Why most people don’t know what they want—and how you can lose yourself by not knowing who you are
  • How to reprogram your subconscious mind, so it starts releasing your desire to your conscious mind
  • Why you must be conscious of the decisions you’re making on a daily basis
  • How the thought of, “I can’t do this,” is usually someone else’s voice in your head
  • How consciously making decisions leads to us creating new neural pathways in our mind (instead of blindly reacting to our world, we stay conscious about what we want and exercise our ability to choose)

 

Plus, I share an exercise to help you pay attention to how you make decisions. If you want to change this—start with where you are. Where are you in your own growth? What do you actually want? Give yourself permission to go after the things you want, including small things.

 

When you start going after what you want, you start treating yourself well. You start loving yourself; you get in touch with your inner desire, why you’re here, and your life’s purpose. If you follow this process, it will continue to expand over time. You’ll find your desires getting bigger, brighter, and greater. Your ability to choose becomes very strong.

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