Decision, decision, how important that is in order to be successful in life! In my list, decision is probably the MOST important ingredient of success. Why? Well, if you don’t make a definitive decision about anything, there is NO way, and I repeat, no way, that you will be successful at it.

Everything that will make a difference in your life will call for an important decision making. However, this said, what would be the stumbling blocks of decision making? Well, there are several, but let’s look at three major ones here for the sake of this article.

Fear – The first enemy of decision making

Do I know of this one from experience! I remember the days when I was a victim of such fear and I can also think of some people very dear and close to me who have never really succeeded in life because of it. The people I am talking about had extreme talents in their hands and did absolutely nothing with their talents, only because of never making the decisions they needed to make in order to turn those talents into fruitful incomes.

Why did they let fears take the best of them? In general they let people tell them what their decision would mean according to their own limited beliefs and which limited beliefs inculcated fear to them, or they let their own fear get in the way, never making the decision to move forward. Some of those fears were rather pathetic and went like this: “It’s a hassle to go through a patent or license in order to start your own business” or “experts are telling me that my paintings are too “perfect” and people don’t like this anymore”.

In other words, fear, translated into all such excuses, and as always, if not kept in check, fear will win. Their fear definitely did win in their case.

Lack of specific knowledge – The second enemy of decision making

Probably the main reason why the two people of my example above let fear take the best of them, preventing them from making a life changing decision, was that they lacked specific knowledge. What do I mean by this? I mean that if they had known how exactly the procedures of getting a patent or a license worked, or if they had known exactly for themselves what consumers like when it comes to buying paintings, much of those fears based on ignorance would have been erased automatically. But, because of lack of such specific knowledge it didn't.

Lack of desire to succeed – The third enemy of decision making

It is without saying that if your desire for success in general and for what you want in particular is not strong enough it will be a long shot to success. Strong desire as mentioned in a previous article is a MUST in order to succeed. The reason why is because when your desire is strong enough it will help you go through all the difficulties or problems you may encounter such as, negativity, criticism, lack of support or many other tough spots you may run into. Strong desire will beat all the stumbling blocks which stand between you and your success, and help you make life changing decision making.