Three Decisions

Inspired by Tony Robbins · Awaken the Giant Within Go to the source ↗

Everything turns on a decision, and the decision is the part that is entirely yours: what you focus on, what you decide it means, and what you do about it. Every card here is one of those three, made small enough to actually make today — and a decision you have not acted on is still a wish.

Choose from 9

What am I focusing on?

Choose What Gets My Attention

I will decide what I am looking at today rather than let it be chosen for me.

I decide what I am looking at today rather than let it be chosen for me, looking for what is already going right before what is not — and when something else has taken the attention, I choose again.

Ask a Better Question

I will ask myself a question that has an answer I could act on.

I notice the question I have been asking myself and replace it with one that has an answer I could act on, then ask it first thing, before the day starts asking.

What am I deciding this means?

Decide What It Means

I will decide what this event means in a way I could actually act on.

I say what happened plainly, find one other explanation before settling on the first, and choose the meaning I could act on. If I have turned it into a verdict about myself, I stop there.

Call It the Beginning

I will treat one setback as the start of something rather than the end of it.

What am I actually going to do?

Make the Decision Real

I will treat this decision as unmade until I have taken one action on it.

I name the next physical action rather than the whole undertaking, and do it within the hour. Until then the decision is unmade.

Change the Approach, Not the Aim

When it is not working, I will change how I am going about it rather than what I am after.

What am I cutting off?

Close One Door

I will close one option deliberately, so the choice stops costing me anything to keep open.

I name the option I have been keeping open and say the no that makes a particular yes possible, closing it somewhere visible — a message, a calendar, a person.

Raise the Standard Once

I will pick one thing and do it to a standard I chose rather than the one I had settled for.

What do I do with my body?

Change My State First

Before something hard, I will change how I am standing or breathing first.

I stand up and change how I am breathing, walk for two minutes, and then make the decision I have been putting off.

You get your own editable copy — change anything, drop what doesn’t fit. They land in your Intentions, tagged Decisions; you pull in what each day is for.