11/01/2021
In the totality of life, you’ll make 5-6 key decisions that will determine your fate and the story written about you.
The above is a paraphrased quote (bc I can’t find the actual one) from Alex Hormozi and I’ve been giving it a great deal of thought recently.
Since internalizing this quote, I want to share two specific examples of how it’s applied to my own life and how thinking about this concept deeper will help you.
First, I believe I’ve made 2 of the 5-6 decisions already in my life.
Quitting my job at Meadowbrook in 2016 (for those who don’t know, I spent 3 years on Long Island believing I wanted to be a GM of a private golf club).
Not pursuing a doctorate and starting my own business in 2018.
These two decisions are paramount to why I’m writing this on my big ass island in Jacksonville, pursuing what I love.
Vulnerability time: I recently took a bold and scary action that I believed would be my third key decision in life.
Didn’t receive the answer I desired.
Whether forever or temporary, time will only tell.
The reason I took that action though was because I now have a clear vision for my life and the next key decisions will be made within that context, framework, and will be positive additions to aid in making that vision become a reality.
The first two decisions were made to avoid misery.
Before having a clear vision, these are necessary.
Everything has to fall apart for your life to come together sometimes.
Once you have a clear vision set for your life, you’re able to make better decisions to build and design the life you truly want.
It’s alright to start over.
It’s okay to try something new.
It’s encouraged to make a key decision in your life to avoid long term pain and regret.
Without a vision, you won’t know until later if an action was a key decision.
With a vision and spending time reverse engineering your life, the potential key decisions will present themselves to you much more clearly.
It’s then up to you to take action and no, not every action will be one of those key decisions but you will be operating at a higher level in life than before.
