Power of Decision-Making Success is a decision. Leadership is a decision. The word “decide” comes from the Latin word “decidare” – meaning “to cut off all other possibilities.” Every great achiever makes a decision about the future they want to create. Despite dyslexia and not doing well in school, multi-billionaire and CEO, Virgin Company, Richard Branson, decided early on that he would make his mark in business. John F. Kennedy, Jr., made a decision – without knowing how - that we would send a man tothe moon during his presidency. *. What decisions are you currently making about your business success? *. How might wishing and hoping be holding you back? *. What will it take to cut off all other possibilities to realize your desired businessdestiny? Power of Daily Success Habits Behind every extraordinary achievement is the discipline of daily success habits with huge payoffs over time. Any Olympic athlete will tell you about his/her days being filled with endless hours of hard work and practice. It is rare that success is overnight. Rather it is the culmination of consistent small steps over time. Warren Buffet plays monopoly for endless hours and memorizes over 200 annual reports a year. Donald Trump reads the newspapers by 6 am every morning. *. What current habits get in the way of your business success? *. What new habits must your cultivate instead? *. If one of your heroes/heroines was runningyour business, what consistent daily actionswould they take to achieve success? Power of Self-Identification How you “see” and identify yourself are the single most powerful influences on your future success. Great achievers, at some point, awaken to their true nature. While they learn from their past, they do not let the past define them. Nor do they let their current circumstances dictate their future. It is their constant quest to reinvent themselves, their lives and their businesses that catapult them above the rest. Despite an early life of abuse and poverty, Oprah Winfrey knew that she was destined for greatness. The breadth and depth of her personal evolution – including, humanitarian, 34 time Emmy winner, chairman of Harpo Entertainment, outstanding actress, political lobbyist and most successful woman in TV history – reminds us of our own boundless potential to become more than we currently are. *. How do you let your past define you and your business success? *. What pivotal moment in your life has had the greatest impact on your self-identity? *. If you were to write a script of who you want to become, how would that script read? Right now, the only thing keeping you from your own greatness is that part of you – yourmind -- is ‘asleep.” You are boxed in by your own “inner rules” and the boundary conditions of our thinking. I invite you to take time to answer the above questions and identify which of the above 7 levels is most holding you back. The good news is: by changing the rules of your inner game, you will wake up to your own extraordinary potential and achieve success you never thought possible.