After his first audition, a casting director told actor Sidney Poitier,
“Why don’t you stop wasting people’s time and go out and become a
dishwasher or something?” It was at that moment, recalls Poitier, that
he decided to devote his life to acting. He wasn’t going to let someone
else decide his life path.
“There’s nothing in the middle of the road, but yellow stripes and dead
armadillo,” says Jim Hightower. Decide to do something now to make your
life better. The choice is yours.
“My decision is maybe—and that’s final.” Is this you? Being decisive is
essential for a successful life. If you deny yourself commitment, what
will you do with your life? Every accomplishment, great or small, starts
with a decision.
David Ambrose remarked, “If you have the will to win, you have achieved
half your success; if you don’t, you have achieved half your failure.”
The moment you definitely commit yourself, change begins. All sorts of
things happen to help you that never would have otherwise occurred.
Kenneth Blanchard observed, “There is a difference between interests and
commitment. When you are interested in doing something, you only do it
when it is convenient. When you are committed to something, you accept
no excuses, only results.” Lack of decisiveness has caused more failures
than lack of intelligence or ability.
Indecision often gives an advantage to the other person because they did
their thinking beforehand. Helen Keller said, “Science may have found a
cure for most evil; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them
all—the apathy of human beings.” Don’t leave a decision for tomorrow
that needs to be made today.
Remember, don’t be a “middle-of-the-roader” because the middle of the
road is the worst place to try to go forward. You can do everything you
ought to do once you make a decision. Today, decide on your dream.
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