Have You Decided? – 3 Steps to Harness the Power of a Word

By Annika Ek – Purpose2Business Mentor & Hand Analyst

Are you ready to make the cut a true Decision means..?

Whether big or small, once you decide to make something happen you can “move mountains”. The key here for those mountains to move is to actually decide with a capital D. You may think you have decided, but your actions, words and thoughts are telling a different story…

Some of the words in the English language are more powerful than others. One of those words that hold an expansive energy is the word “decide”. It is often used loosely and decisions are made as fast as they are reversed or changed, diffusing the power that was at your fingertips.

Let’s look at the root meaning of the word “decide”. There are two parts to this word; we have “de” and “cide”. “De” has the meaning to reduce and remove, as is seen in the words decelerate or debug.

The second half of the world is “cide” (or “cise”) which means to cut or kill, as we can see in the word “homicide“, and in “incisor” which is a sharp tooth for cutting food.

Once you know the true meaning of the word Decide you see that it means to make a cut and remove yourself from something. That something can be physical, like when you move to a different city which entails removing and cutting yourself off by going from one place to another.

A decision can also be applied to your internal world. When you decide to do something you must stop doing it the old way and figuratively (or literally) cut yourself off from the old way of doing, thinking or acting or you have actually not made a decision that has the “teeth” to shift things in your life. What we are saying here is that you can’t keep doing things the same old way and expect things to turn out any differently.

Let me summarize the above by giving you 3 steps to parse your decision making through that will allow you to harness the power your good intentions and allow you to decide with a capital D!

Step 1 Make a Firm Decision – Until you decide with all of your being, the Universe, or God (or what word you prefer to use to describe the Creative Power) has no reason to show you how that can be accomplished. This is significant since you don’t need to know how, all you have to do is to decide what.

Step 2 Align Yourself – Doing in a new way always feels awkward in the beginning so don’t let that stop you from staying true to your Decision. Our creative power comes when you stick to your Decision and align what you want in your heart, with what you think and with how you take action.

Step 3 Catch Yourself - It is impossible to control our thoughts, so don’t even try, instead focus on catching yourself when you think in an old way that is not serving you, and use your raised awareness to shift your thoughts back to your Decision.

Bonus Tip – Don’t give up! it is always darkest and coldest right before dawn breaks. This is also true for major shifts in your life; it is when it seems the most hopeless that you are closest to a huge breakthrough, provided you stick to your Decision, no matter what!

Now go and experience the force behind making a Decision according to the true meaning of the word. I hope that decision will be to Live Your Life’s Purpose!

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