The Most Important Thing Is To Decide

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What is going on, ladies and gentlemen? Welcome to another edition of the Warrior Soul podcast. My name is Chris Albert, and this is where we deliver tools, tactics, strategies, and ideas to help The US military veteran community and anybody else willing to listen to live their absolute best lives. Today, I wanna talk to you about so that's really, really simple, but something that could have a massive impact on your life, and that is deciding. You know, one of the problems I see out there is that a lot of you have not decided on what you wanna do.

You haven't decided on where you wanna go, what you wanna become, you know, what you're gonna do with your life. Instead, you're doing either one or two things. You're either either waiting for something happen and and hoping that that thing that happens is gonna be good, or you're waiting for fate to take you somewhere. Right? You're just allowing fate to take you where it might, and you're going through life without a plan.

And in both cases, you're gonna end up screwed up because you're not allowing yourself to guide you along the way. You're allowing the world to guide you. Right? You're giving the world the biggest say in in where you end up rather than your own ambitions, your own thoughts, your own planning strategies. You're not getting by on your own merit.

Right? And in that case, you know, even if you end up someplace that's relatively good, right, maybe based on how you were born, who your parents were, you know, you're not gonna end up at your full potential. Right? You're not gonna end up at your full potential. You're gonna end up just being what the world expected you to become.

And if you don't want that, if you do want your full potential, if you do want to to live a happier life, a better life, if you wanna live a life of meaning, a life of purpose, a life of fulfillment, then you really do have to decide. You have to decide what you want. You have to decide what path you're going to take, and you have to plan to get there. Right? And that, my friends, is is 75% of the battle.

Right? And don't get me wrong. There's a dogfight once you decide it. Right? You you're gonna be fighting every day for it, and that's hard work.

But part of the one of the most difficult things is to figure out what you want. Alright? Maybe you don't know what you want. Maybe you you you're sitting there and you're agonizing over over what you should do because life is hard, decisions are hard. What you need to do is you need to get out there and you need to try something.

Right? That something doesn't need to be what you're gonna do for the rest of your life, but even if you don't like it, at least you figured out what you don't want to do. Right? See, some of you, you're sitting there and and you you you're just analyzed into paralysis, and you're sitting there and you you're not doing anything because you don't know what you want. You gotta get out there and you gotta try something.

Maybe try applying for a new job. Maybe try reading about a new subject. Maybe getting out there trying a new sport. Maybe getting out there just trying something new will light a fire, will light an idea bulb in your mind about what you wanna do for the rest of your life. You might find something that you actually love.

Right? You're not gonna find that by sitting at home. You're not gonna find that by sitting on your couch hoping that something good happens today. You're not gonna find that by just letting fate drag you through life. Right?

You need to get out there. You need to actively trying new things, actively seeking out new ideas, actively seeking out new experiences. Right? And then once you do that, get out there, you make a plan for where you're gonna go. Right?

Any plan is better than no plan. Any plan is better than no plan. You guys learn this in the military. You guys learn this from leadership classes. You learn this.

It's it's it's basic. Right? Any plan, any action is better than no action at all. And some of y'all forgetting this. Right?

Life does not go on forever. We are here but for a second of time. Right? And you do not you do not wanna be an old person looking back at yourself in the mirror wishing that you had this experience or that experience. Trust me.

I've I've been there, and and it sucks. You know? And I'm not even that old. I'm I'm only 42. Right?

But you do not want that feeling of of regret that you haven't tried enough in your life, that you haven't gone out there and decided for yourself where you wanna go, because that is the thing that's holding you back right now. That's all I got for today, guys. This is Chris Albert with the Warrior Soul podcast. I'll be back at you later on this week with some more awesome content, and I am out.