As far as committing yourself to take action, he continued, it comes down to making decisions. Robbins said: "What you have to do is [you've] gotta say together, 'You know what we're going to do? If I'm gonna try to make the perfect decision, I'll never make a decision.' The most successful leaders on Earth ... You are a leader if you can make decisions, because so few people do in this world today. People spread their preferences. They talk about what they want. They skate on the surface. They don't go deep and master anything. "If you decide, 'I'm going to make the tough decisions,' then you're going to be an effective leader. And the first tough decision is in order to do something you've gotta give up other things. I gotta pick one thing. It's not going to be perfect, but I'm going to make it perfect. I gotta pick something that I'm driven by. "And if you don't know what it is, you gotta pick one thing and go full towards at it. You got to give it its time. You're going to say, 'I'm going to spend the next 18 months doing this. If I find out I'm wrong, I'm going to find out quicker than if I spend the next 18 months still looking at 15 opportunities.'" From: Business Insider
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10 Things Emotionally Intelligent people refuse to think
Pay attention to what comes out of your mouth. The language you use affects how you experience your world, and how others experience you. Inevitably, things get "lost in translation." If you're familiar with cognitive distortion or cognitive bias, these psychology terms teach us that there are subtle ways that our mind can convince us of something that isn't really true. These inaccurate thoughts are usually used to reinforce negative thinking or emotions, thus holding us back. We all do this, both consciously and unconsciously, and how we do it provides pointers to our underlying beliefs about ourselves, our peers, partners and colleagues, and the immediate world around us. This could spell trouble. Which of these do you do? Check the areas below and be courageous enough to ask a trusted peer for perspective. Is it a problem? Top 10 Cognitive Distortions All or nothing thinking: Seeing things as black-or-white, right-or-wrong, with nothing in between. Essentially, "if I'm not perfect then I'm a failure." Examples: "I didn't finish writing that proposal so it was a complete waste of time." "There's no point in playing in that golf tournament to raise money if I'm not 100 percent in shape." "The vendor didn't show, they're completely unreliable!" Over-generalization: Using words like "always" or "never" in relation to a single event or experience. "I'll never get that promotion." "She always does that...." Minimizing or magnifying (also, catastrophizing): Seeing things as dramatically more or less important than they actually are--which can often create a "catastrophe" that follows. Examples of such inner dialogue: "Because my boss publicly thanked her, she'll get that promotion, not me (even though I had a great performance review and just won a company award)." "I forgot that email! That means my