Your most important decision

Welcome to this Special Edition of on unfamiliar ground. Decisiveness is essential. It's a skill we can learn. The most important decision you have to take? Live a life in integrity.

"It was 15 years ago. I needed peace in my life. I was so overwhelmed. So I decided to throw out all men out of my life."

"And, did it work?"

"Sure. I live an excellent life. And I don't even see them men anymore."

It was a brief conversation with the older woman beside me in the café, and it captured everything exceptional about deciding. "To decide" derives from the Latin word dēcīdere, which means "to cut off, cut out, and choose a course of action." Deciding is essential: It channels all energy, helps us focus, and move us forward.

The essential step:

We can change everything, but not everything. So, if we want to act with impact, we have to choose, decide, and then follow through on that decision, whatever it entails.