How to Form Strong Beliefs to Make the Best Decisions

Go for direction over speed since that’s how to make the right progress. It doesn’t matter how much you progress if that’s not what you want. Once you’re locked in on a vision, you’ll get there no matter the speed. Doesn’t matter how slow or small your progress is, you will reach your goal. Sadly, sometimes people focus only on speed without knowing the vision. Because of this, many people go in circles, never reaching their goals.

Then, it’s important to be deliberate with your decisions with your goals. Usually, we wait for something outside us to make us act on our dreams. Life can end immediately and yet we’re often being passive in how we live. A lot of people are fit and healthy diet all the time at a young age.

With your beliefs, you need to have strong ones but be loose with them. Focus on getting good results and not just you being right all the time. You always want to update what you know so you can attain your goals. After all, even you would admit what you know now is better than yesterday.

But, you cannot have a strong opinion without understanding the other side. You should be able to have a debate with yourself to have good opinions. Sometimes, you need to have others think for you but be aware of this. Being aware is important because then you can revisit these with debates.

When doing things, you need to understand the why of what you do. This is so when things go wrong, then you can adjust accordingly properly. The world is a changing environment so you need to be smart and flexible. Tactics may get you what you want but it will be for nothing without principles.

As you live your principles, seek out ways you are wrong to improve. It’s impossible to be perfect so be mindful of everything you can correct. Protecting our ego is only going to prevent us from growing and learning. So take ownership of your decisions, even though you’re affected by luck. Always recognize the luck that you have so you can always maximize it. That’s all you can do as the luck around you fluctuates all the time.

Source: Shane Parrish