Your Life Is A Reflection Of Your Choices

If we were to boil all of life’s complexity down to one thing, the single thing that completely determines the trajectory of everything, it would be your choices. In every moment of every day we are choosing what we do and what we don’t. What we think and what we’re not thinking about. What we allow into our lives and what we don’t tolerate. Everything is governed by our choices.

In “The Compound Effect” Darren Hardy puts it like this: “You make your choices and your choices make you.”

It’s very, very simple, but it’s not easy. There are a lot of factors that go into the choices that we make. 

Our choices are impacted by how we feel in the present moment, the ways we’ve been primed to think or react to certain things, and the competing needs and interests we have that go to battle in tradeoffs. And further a lot of the choices happen unconsciously without us even realizing it.

As I see it, here are some of the pillars to making good choices.

First we need awareness. If we’re unaware that we’re making choices then it’s going to be very difficult to make a different choice.

Second is we need self-discipline. And not discipline through the lens of having ‘will-power’, but discipline to follow through on the things that we know are best for us.

And third, we need standards. The more we can define who we want to be and how we want to show up before making a choice, the easier it is to be accountable to making a better choice because it requires less energy to figure out what to do.

The way I make sure I’m set up to make as many good choices as possible is through my daily Keystone Habit which is to fill out my Self Improvement Scorecard. Through this Scorecard I can bring awareness to choices that I didn’t realize I made, like moments where I was snacking too much without realizing it.

It’s where I build my sense of self-discipline with a subconscious priming audio I complete every night called Discipline On Demand. It’s where I have predetermined standards for myself like spending less than 30 minutes on social media, sleeping 7.5 hours a night, or accomplishing my goal for the day, and I review my day’s performance against those standards to stay accountable to making the right choices.

When we realize the power of our choices, making good choices more often and harnessing them in service of our goals and dreams, we become unstoppable. 

If you want to incorporate everything I just described about my self-improvement systems, which has taken a decade to get just right, for yourself? This is for you!