![]() I was grateful for every opportunity that crossed my path. I worked my ass off in school, applied to the best schools in the country, and continued working my ass off once I got in and graduated. Instead of blaming the world for my circumstances, I took responsibility for trying to improve them. While it’s not always so clear in the moment, going right has always served me over the long-term. When you make more lefts, you end up resentful and blaming the world for the shitty cards you were dealt. When you make more rights, you live a life with more joy, gratitude, and achievement. The goal is to learn from the lefts so that you can make more rights and get closer to the life you desire and the person you want to become. Sometimes we have no idea what we’re doing.īut the goal is not to eliminate the lefts. Sometimes we choose what’s expedient over what’s meaningful. I’ve made a lot of lefts along the way, but that’s life. Like Hart, I’ve always tried to go right. These forks are not just decisions that lead to actions, like saying yes to a job offer, but thoughts that lead to beliefs, like blaming your father for ruining your life. Every right you take leads you closer to your best possible destiny every left leads you further away from it. And you can choose to go right or you can choose to go left. I just finished Kevin Hart’s book, I Can’t Make This Up, and he had a useful framework for how to make these ambiguous daily choices:Īt every moment in life, there is a fork in the path you are on. Over the course of five or ten years, my weekly choice to write or drink with friends determines whether I become a best-selling author or that guy who always dreamed of writing a book but never got to it. Life is short, and your daily choices determine the quality of your life and who you become. It’s not easy.Īnd while these decisions often seem insignificant in the short-term, they matter a whole lot in the long-term. In a world of limited time, energy, and resources, we need to make decisions without complete information or clear answers. We all confront this dilemma many times every day. I made a choice, and I’m living with the consequences. And while I tackled it with a quick pros and cons analysis, there is no right answer. Is writing this article worth giving up time with people I care about? I made a choice, and while I’m only three sentences in, I’m not sure that I’ll ever know if it was the right one. ![]() Instead of having drinks and laughs with good friends, I decided to sit alone in a dimly lit room and attempt to write something that wasn’t a complete waste of your time. ![]() I started writing this article at 10:03pm on a Friday night. Learning how to make hard decisions will allow you to improve the quality of your life. ![]()
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