Make up your mind, will you?!

I have a friend, who can not make a decision and just go on with his life. He has to torture himself by thinking of the different future scenarios and all kind of Ifs. He would lose sleep, be in sour mood, and worry about what he has missed or will miss that he is losing what is remaining of his hair (ok so boldness is hereditary, but stress speeds the process!). This post is dedicated to him (as an alternative to hitting him on his head for once and all)

So you are at a point of your life where the decision you make now, will change and shape the rest of your life, forever. What do you do? Easy, really!

First, list what YOU really want. If you don’t know what you want, you will never know when to be happy or content. Then think of what you have to do to get what you want. Are you willing to pay whatever price just to get that? What are your priorities? What is more important and what are you willing to sacrifice in the process of getting what you really want? These are facts. Build your decision based on these facts. Once you make the decision to cross the bridge, don’t look back. Just move forward. Get busy carrying out your decision and dismiss all anxiety about the outcome. Don't stew about the future. Just live each day until bedtime. Worry would break you if you allow it to crowd your mind. If you know that a circumstance is beyond your power to change or revise, then just cooperate with it. Just say to yourself: “It is so, it cannot be otherwise, life goes on!” Do not fuss about trifles (the termites of life) and ruin your peace of mind. Enough sawing sawdust!

Our life is what our thoughts make it. I’m not saying live in a fantasy world, but don’t be submerged with negative thoughts. When you face a problem, just remember the blessings in your life. Count them, one by one, and you’ll see how your problem shrinks. A mind that counts blessings has no room for self-pity. Stop playing the negative tapes in your mind. Eject them and insert new tapes! Picture yourself hitting the “stop, eject & play” buttons. If you can’t find the remote, go to the machine will you! Don’t think only in the terms "all or nothing". No one is a complete and total failure. Ok maybe you will hear people say that you are. Ignore Them. These people are the parasites of this world, who feed on putting others down. Stamp on them, and move on (For bugs lovers, it’s just a figure of speech, ok?!!!). Think about it, most things you do, you do them right. Just because you sometimes make a mistake or take a wrong path does not make you a total failure. It makes you human. So for God’s sake, be courageous, make your decision, and get on with it!