Keys To Successful Living

Deciding things on time

The first point to understand is the philosophy and science of decision

The most successful person is that person who knows how to decide  

on time. There are many extraordinarily brilliant people
 

Opportunity comes, they withdraw  and are not able to act. They do not know how to decide on time, but they don’t do it. They always say, “Well, I knew it. I understood the key, but I did not act in time.” Though they may think correctly, and accurately understand the situation properly, they suddenly lose confidence. This  is a world of competition; someone else is always trying to attain the same thing we are. So if we do not decide on time, someone else will attain what we want. A tender bamboo can be easily bent, but if we try to bend a mature bamboo, it will break. That which we have to do today, we should also not make decision in haste. We may have a setback if we make a wrong decision, but our mistake will teach us. Many people avoid making decisions their whole live, so their decisive faculty of mind, the faculty of discrimination, becomes rusty & dies. Such people become totally dependent on others.  When we study the four functions of the mind—buddhi, the faculty of decisiveness; ego the principle of identity; chitta, the storehouse of impressions; and manas, the importer and exporter of sensation and experience—then we become aware of the power of the will. Will power is that something within us that comes forward and says “Do this. It will be helpful for you.” Training the internal functions help us to understand the decisive faculty of the mind, without which we cannot be successful.

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