Big choices and small decisions

We make millions of choices throughout life that steer us along our path.

We choose what to eat, when to go, when to protect, when to give up, when to push through, when to go the extra mile, when to rest, what to spend our lives and careers getting better at, and what we want to contribute to the people we care about.

What if instead of millions of individual choices, we made a few big choices that really matter early on and set the standards for how we live.

We could then hold the millions of opportunities we get against the standard.

This creates simplicity.

Either the opportunity meets the standard or it doesn’t.

To cut off the baggage of sub-standard choices and leave only the one best option.

This is the definition of a decision.

Literally “to cut off,”

From de- “off” + caedere “to cut”.

The energy-saving structure of a decision saves the chaotic freedom of choice for when it really matters.