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decisions on the options before you, which is an outward focus. However, if you tune out all the external noise and go within you base your choices on who you want to be instead of what’s available, thus eliminating your struggle. To illustrate this let’s take this scenario: You’ve committed to yourself you are going to live a healthier lifestyle this year. You want to eat better and exercise more. Everything is going great but then donuts show up in your office break room. If you use an external focus to decide what to do, you


end up wrestling with deciding to eat one and workout an extra twenty minutes, or not eat one, or say screw it and eat one and skip your workout, and on and on your inner dialogue goes, weighing one option against the other. However, if you use an internal focus and come from a place of being a healthy person, you just act in a way that a healthy person would. You not only pass on the donut but also feel good about your choice because it was made from a self-supporting space.


Focusing externally decides by doing something, focusing internally decides by being some way.


Start With Your End In Mind


“The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. T reat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.” ~ A. J. Jacobs


When you base your choice on “being” rather than “doing”


you project your end result into the future and reengineer from there. You strip away the external and step into your choice as your future self. From this vantage point you easily know which choice draws you in that direction. In the above example you’ve projected forward being healthy and then the choice needed to arrive at that place was clear without much consternation. This process easily and smoothly navigates all the options you face. Decide who you want to be, and from that place navigate


what you do. If you decide you want to be a more loving parent then choices around your work hours, how you speak to your kids, and the actions you decide are a priority will all be obvious. You will no longer wonder what to do or what choices will pro- duce the best outcome.


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