Decisions create destiny

It is a fundamental fact of life that we create our own destiny, but whether we recognise it as such is a different challenge writes ASHITA

The more likely decision, however, is to procrastinate. Is it too much to think about right now? Maybe you would commit if you had the time? These are reasons or, rather, excuses why you won’t follow through. So, by not deciding to do something about losing the extra five kilos, you have actually decided to hang on to them!

A challenging decision

Why do we decide not to do things, even when we know that we ought to do them? It simply comes down to the principle of pleasure and pain. We avoid the pain of having to commit to a strategy of losing the extra five kilos. It’s more pleasurable to remain in our comfort zone. That’s why we do nothing and pretend it’s ok to carry that extra five kilos. It’s not doing any real harm, is it?

What if carrying the extra weight is having a serious impact on your health? Would you then decide to take action? Absolutely! The level of pain changes, and we can’t avoid it. If losing five kilos is a want and not a need, can you use pain to get motivated? Yes, you can use both pleasure and pain to get the outcome you desire. To experience pain, ask yourself, “What is the true cost of carrying the extra 5 kilos?” Is it costing you your selfconfidence? Describe how that’s affecting you.

Pleasure and pain

To create pleasure, think about what you will gain by losing 5 kilos. Will your selfconfidence increase? What other areas of your life will now benefit from this? What would this mean to you? Would you have more energy? So, what would having more energy mean to you?

This pleasure pain principle can be applied to all areas of your life. It has the power to propel you in the right direction and it enables you to maintain momentum. Every decision you make is based on pleasure and pain. How you apply pleasure and pain today will result in the decisions that determine your tomorrow.

It’s your destiny, you decide!

Last month we celebrated the 64th year of independence of our mother nation, India. In terms of her age as a sovereign state, India is in her infancy and still has a great deal to achieve if she is to grow into the developed superpower she is striving to become.

on the massive scale needed to achieve her final outcome?

The strategies employed by key decision makers in India will determine this. It is those people at her helm propelling her forward, who are ultimately responsible for what India becomes and how she is defined in the future. That will be India’s destiny.

How about your future?

So, whom or what is responsible for your future? Is it the government? Is it your boss? Maybe it’s your spouse? Or is it your unique circumstances? The single entity that is responsible for your life and for what you create within it is YOU! You are the decision maker in your life. Even when you do nothing about an issue, that is still a decision you have made and there will still be an outcome.

According to Dr Manmohan Singh, India can deal with domestic challenges and achieve global recognition through unity and co-operation. If this approach is applied universally and consistently, the likelihood of India graduating into a developed nation by 2020 isn’t necessarily a ‘pie in the sky’ notion.

India’s success in achieving her future potential is determined by the decisions that are made for her. How will she maintain unity at home and co-operation overseas

Let’s use a simple exercise to illustrate this. Imagine that you know you could do with losing five kilos. Even if you are perfectly happy with your weight, (lucky you!), just play along. You will need paper, a pen and some imagination.

1) Decide what you could do to shed the extra weight;

2) Specify when you are going to do those things

3) Choose how you will do them. Can you see a strategy emerging from the decisions you have made so far?

4) Now, think about the how you specified in step 3. Imagine yourself actually doing those things. At this point, you may follow through and decide to take action. Great decision!

“We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?” said Jawaharlal Nehru on the eve of India’s Declaration of Independence, August 15, 1947.

Just as India has endured the pain of her past and has embraced the challenges of her future, we too can learn from her courage and wisdom to accept that all decisions, whether they are made consciously or subconsciously, will create destiny. Just as India has grasped her opportunities since her self-discovery and has prospered, so can we.

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