Every single moment, we are making decisions whether it’s buying cola or cider, spending the morning in bed or jogging, reading this article or doing anything else.
Decisions are a major important point in life and if we would become conscious about them, we would realize that we do more than 200 of them every single day.
As with anything in life, there are certain decisions which bring us closer to our goals. If you have the option to go partying with friends tonight or stay at home and work on your business, which one would you choose?
It depends on your goals, but it’s safe to assume since you’re reading this article, that you want to be the boss and therefore stay at home and work on your business.
But I am not here to tell you what to do with your life and to micromanage your life’s decisions. I am here to teach you a system which you can implement by yourself. If you follow this system, you will end up achieving your goals. But to do that, we’ll have to figure out on which level of decision-making are you on. And we’re starting with the primordial one.
First Level: The Chump Level
Never make a decision when you’re upset, sad, jealous, or in love — Mario Teguh
This level is on par with the reflexes that we have. It’s a place where around 80 per cent of the world’s population lives. This decision-making level is called the “Chump Level” and it has this nickname for a reason.
On this level, there is no time or space between a stimulus and a response. What that means in plain English is that you react to anything your environment (external), your mind (thoughts), or your emotions (state) throw at you without giving it a second thought.
Someone hits on your girlfriend and you see that — your immediate reaction is to punch the guy.
Your boss yells at you, so you hit him with a stapler.
You have one beer and it makes you instantly happy. So you have 10 more — they don’t make you happy.
You start a new habit of going to the gym. The next morning you don’t feel like going so you don’t go.
I could go on an on about these examples but you get the point. Here, there isn’t any decision-making system because you just react to whatever happens and most of the time, you react badly.
The three elements that guide this system are:
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