What drives your decisions?
Take the quiz“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.” – Tony Robbins
Decisions — we make them every day. And with every decision we make (good or bad), our lives are defined just a little more, because decisions ultimately shape our destiny.
Knowing this, why do some of us continue to make questionable decisions? It might seem like the proverbial angel and devil on each shoulder who want to sway you in one direction or the other. It’s a question of self-control.
But what drives decision making – really?
As Tony Robbins says, every decision we make is dependent on our values. We make decisions that lean toward pleasure. We also make decisions that move us away from things we’ve determined are not as pleasurable. The need to avoid pain and seek pleasure drives everything we do – and as Tony says, “People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure.” What lengths will we go to? It all depends on our standards and our focus.
What drives decision making?
Better decision making begins with self-awareness – the ability to identify and express our emotions and thoughts. Learning what drives our decisions is the first step toward total control of our emotions – and lives. There are three surprising factors that drive all the decisions we make.
1. Your focus
What you focus on, you feel – and it’s what drives decision making like nothing else can. Will you make decisions out of fear, or out of positivity, hope and love? Will you focus on the past and let it define you, or will you let it go? Tony explains that every moment of our lives, we’re answering three crucial questions.
