Each Decision Is a Declaration of Who You Are!

During the Great Depression there was a man who was desperate to find a way to feed his wife and children. Finally with no other recourse, he went to a nearby potato farm in search of some kind of work.

He knocked on the door of the farmer, explained his situation, and asked if there was anything – anything at all – he could do on the farm. The farmer felt the man’s desperation so he searched his mind for some kind of job he could give him. Finally he said, “Come with me.” He took the man out to a long conveyor belt that carried the potatoes and told him, “This is simple, just put the large potatoes in the crate on the left and the small ones in the crate on the right.”

After only a few hours, there was another knock on the door and the farmer was surprised to see the man from the morning standing there. “Thank you very much for trying to help me but I have to quit,” the man nervously blurted out. “But why?” asked the farmer. The man replied, “I just can’t do it anymore; the decisions are killing me!”

Let’s face it. Some people are really good at making decisions and others, well… Or maybe you are great at making huge, life-altering decisions but deciding what to have for lunch is a stress-inducer for you. Or you could be someone who makes decisions everyday in work but can’t make and keep a simple decision to take care of your health. Sometimes, the closer the decision is to you, the harder it is or maybe you freeze when you know your decision will affect others.

Making decisions can be super easy, deeply troubling, or any level of ease or difficulty in-between, depending on a variety of factors such as, knowing what you really want, knowing how to get your hands on the right information, how in touch you are with your true intuition, role-models you’ve had, your own general patterns of thinking, your level of optimism or pessimism, personal experience (too much or too little, good or bad), and much more.

Unfortunately or fortunately our lives are primarily a reflection and accumulation of the decisions we make. If you’ve made some decisions in the past that didn’t turn out precisely as you had hoped, learn from them, move on, and be ready to apply the learning to future decisions. Almost every person I know feels better on the other side of a decision. The process of making a decision can be one of the greatest stresses you face in your life or it can be the thing that frees you to have, do, be, and create what you really want!

Remember this: Each and every decision you make – large or small – is a declaration of who you are or who you want to be. Your dreams, desires, and goals will only be realized when you step up, when you decide something new. Not a wimpy, change-with-the-wind decision but one that is backed up with commitment, with resolve.

Take charge of your decisions; make decisions that lead you to the future you desire and you'll find that life will take on a new energy!

Your coach, Debra

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