Compiled and edited by Frederick Mann
How to Do Things Right
and Succeed
Your 11 Hidden Core Thought Patterns determine your level of success. FIX THEM OR FAIL. Most people don't know what sabotages their success. Switch all 11 of your Hidden Core Thought Patterns to "win" and succeed big time.Think right and success follows!
DEEP in your MIND is a SECRET POWER. Unlock it with the 10X KEY. Jack Welch of General Electric found the 10X KEY. In 1985 it was taught to GE managers. By 1988 they had grown GE from a $30 billion company into a $300 billion company!
Introduction
What is the most important human ability or power? I think it's the power of choice, the ability to choose and make decisions. See "Human Choice: The Greatest Power on Earth" in #TL10: How to Achieve and Increase Personal Power.
"Although we are weaker and slower than every other large animal, our advantage lies in being able to find options and choose the best one." -- Charles Foster, Ph.D., M.B.A. ('What Do I Do Now? Dr. Foster's 30 Laws of Great Decision Making')
One of the most important ways to increase your advantages (and decrease your disadvantages) in life is to improve your ability to make great decisions.
Experiment: Hold your finger about 12 inches in front of your face. Decide to lift your finger about 3 inches and make it go up. Repeat to make your finger go 3 inches left, 3 inches right, and 3 inches down. Did your finger move in accordance with your decisions? If it did, think about the implications and what in the universe made this remarkable achievement possible. Repeat the experiment once a day or more often until you have a major realization.
"Whatever you're trying to decide, you have everything you need inside you right now to be one of those people who easily, quickly, and comfortably make great decisions." -- Charles Foster, Ph.D., M.B.A. ('What Do I Do Now? Dr. Foster's 30 Laws of Great Decision Making')
Whatever the current quality of your life -- your health, happiness, career, wealth or poverty, relationships, etc. -- consider the extent to which it's the outcome of your past choices or decisions. Also consider that your future may be an "open book" to be largely written by the choices or decisions you make from now on.
"When faced with a decision, the most important quality winners have is that they care about making good choices. When confronted with a big decision, they think about it and work hard to figure out the best thing to do.
What makes losers losers, more than anything, is that they make decisions the way a cork in the ocean decides which way it's going to go. They are totally controlled by the haphazard forces around them. They make bad decisions because they don't really care about making decisions." -- Charles Foster, Ph.D., M.B.A. ('What Do I Do Now? Dr. Foster's 30 Laws of Great Decision Making')
I have several thousand books. I've gained many advantages from studying some of these books. If I were to rate my most useful books in terms of "advantages per page," Dr. Foster's 'What Do I Do Now?' would rate in the top 10! So I suggest you get your own copy as soon as possible. You may discover it's one of the most useful books ever written!
The purpose of this report is to improve your ability to make great decisions, and -- even more important! -- to follow through and implement your great decisions!
You can also apply Dr. Fosters 30 Laws to select what's most important in your life ... what you may want to devote most attention to. Dr, Foster provides a method you can use to determine which aspects of you life you may want to give the highest priority. You can find it under "Perspectives: Knowing Your Priorities."
The only real failure is failing to learn from failure
(From Tabor College, Australia.)
There is a story of a young reporter who was commissioned to interview an old and successful businessman. 'Sir,' he asked politely, 'what has been the secret of your success?'
The older man leaned back on his leather swivel chair, behind his shining mahogany desk, and replied, 'Two words, son, two words: right decisions.'
The reporter wrote it down. Then he asked another question. 'And how do you learn how to make right decisions, sir?' he asked.
The successful businessman leaned back further and replied, 'One word, son, one word: experience.'
The reporter wrote this down, too, and then asked, 'Well, sir, how do you acquire experience?'
The older man leaned forward over his desk and whispered conspiratorially, 'Two words, son, two words: wrong decisions!'
The only real failure is failing to learn from failure.
William Glasser and Choice Theory
A very important aspect of decision-making is covered by Wlilliam Glasser, M.D. in his books:
Glasser makes a distinction between "external control psychology" and his "choice theory." He illustrates external control psychology with three central beliefs:
"FIRST BELIEF: I answer a ringing phone, open the door to a doorbell, stop at a red light, or do countless other things because I am responding to a simple external signal.
SECOND BELIEF: I can make other people do what I want them to do even if they don't want to do it. And other people can control how I think, act, and feel.
THIRD BELIEF: It is right, it is even my moral obligation, to ridicule, threaten, or punish those who don't do what I tell them to do or even reward them if it will get them to do what I want."
Glasser talks about "driving the plague of external control psychology from the Earth." (Note that your Self 1 typically attempts to act as an "external control psychologist" over your Self 2. In his "Inner Game" books, W. Timothy Gallwey makes a distinction between "Self 1" and "Self 2." Self 1 can be regarded as related to involuntary thoughts -- often negative -- that automatically enter your mind. See #TL04C: The Ultimate Success Secret.)
"Whatever behavior we choose is generated inside our brains. Choice theory explains that we are, as all living creatures are, internally motivated." -- William Glasser, M.D. ('Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom')
Glasser also developed the concept of total behavior consisting of:
We choose our actions (decide to take them) and our thoughts (decide to think them). We indirectly choose our feelings and much of the physiology (e.g., clenching our fists) that form part of a "particular total behavior." We answer the phone because we decide to do so. We stop at a red light because we decide to do so.
We depress ourselves when we decide to choose certain "doings" and "thinkings."
External control psychology:
"I am depressed."
"I suffer from anxiety."
"I have a phobia."
Choice theory:
"I am depressing myself or I'm choosing to depress myself."
"I am anxieting or choosing to be anxious."
"I am phobicking or choosing to be phobic."
Recognizing the extent to which your choices (or decisions) extend, opens the door to making other choices (or decisions): "Instead of depressing myself, what other better thoughts and actions can I choose (decide to think and take) that will result in different feelings and physiology?"
Learning and implementing Glasser's Control Theory and/or Choice Theory can give you huge advantages! Check out "Relationships and Our Habits" and "The Ten Axioms of Choice Theory."
Dr. Foster's 30 Laws of Decision Making
#1: Focus on the most important thing (Are you giving full weight to the most important issue?)
#2: Don't decide until you're ready (Why not give yourself more time?)
#3: Look for all the good things that can happen (What's the best outcome you can expect?)
#4: Choose it or lose it (What big decision are you not making now?)
#5: Base your decision on self-acceptance (Does your decision fit the real you?)
#6: Look ahead (How will your decision play out over time?)
#7: Turn big decisions into a series of little decisions (What small step can you take toward a decision?)
#8: You always havebetter options (What are better options beyond those you've checked out?)
#9: Get what you need to feel safe (What are you doing to take care of your safety needs?)
#10: Do what you really want (Are you sure you've let your heart's desire hold sway?)
#11: If it ain't simple, it ain't gonna work (Are you making things more complicated than they need to be?)
#12: Have a hopeful heart and a cautious head (Have you balanced hoping for the best with protecting yourself from the worst?)
#13: Tune in to what you're saying to yourself (Have you remembered to really listen to yuorself?)
#14: Never let a lower priority outweigh a higher priority (Are your priorities all out of whack?)
#15: No matter what, don't get trapped (Are you protecting yourself from getting stuck?) [For more examples of important traps, see #FFP05: Harry Browne's Freedom Principles.]
#16: Know your Achilles' heel (What are the top ten bad habits in making decisions?)
Levels of Creation
In considering how to decide what action to take at any given time, you may want to take into account whether it serves you best to apply one of the formulas in:
Managing Your Time
How you decide to utilize your time is a central aspect influencing many of your decisions -- see #TL03F: How to Manage Your Time.
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