Keys to Successful Living
Part 2
(Anonymous)
Deciding Things on Time
The
first point to understand is the philosophy and since 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 extraordinarily 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 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. Time is valuable in the
external world. A tender bamboo can easily bend, but if we try to bend a mature
bamboo, it will break. That which we have to do today, 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 their 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 – buddhi, the
faculty of decisiveness; ego, the
principle of identity; chitta, 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 helps us to understand the decisive faculty of the mind, without
which we cannot be successful.
Choose The Right!!!