Keys to Successful Living
Part
2
(Anon)
Deciding
Things on Time
The first point to understand is the philosophy
and science of decision—how to make decisions on time. The most successful
person is that person who knows how to decide on time. There are many
extraordinary brilliant people who understand things very quickly, but when the
time comes to make a decision, when an opportunity comes, they withdraw and are
not able to act. They do not know how to decide. They know they should learn to
decide on time, but they don’t do it. They only 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 completion; someone else is always trying to
attain the same thing we are. So if we do not decide in time, someone else will
attain what we want. Time is valuable in the external world. 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 postpone for tomorrow, but we should also not
make decisions in haste. We may have a setback if we make a wrong decision, but
our mistakes will teach us. Many people avoid making decisions their whole
lives, so there decisive faculty of mind, the faculty of discrimination,
becomes rusty and dies. Such people become totally dependent on others. When we
study the four functions of the mind-- Buddli, the faculty of decisiveness;
ego, the principal of identity; chittta, the storehouse of impressions; and
manas, the importer and exporter of sensations 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.
CHOOSE
THE RIGHT!!!
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