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It is the primary obstacle that prevents us from changing our lives or taking action to help other people change theirs. You have the power right now to control how think, how you feel and what you do.
Together we have discovered the giant power that shapes destiny, decision and that our decisions about what to focus on, what things mean and what to do are the decision that will determine the quality of our present and future.
Now it time to address the power of joint decisions to shape the destiny of our community, our country and our world. What will determine the quality of life for generations to come will be the collective decisions we make today about how to deal with such current challenges as widespread drug abuse, the imbalance of trade, ineffective public education.
By fixating on everyday this not working, we limit our focus to effects and we neglect the causes of these problem. We fail to recognize that it the same decision you and I make every day that create our destinies. Remember that all decision are followed by consequences. If we make our decisions unconsciously, that is, let other people or other factors in our environment do the thing for us and act without at least anticipating the potential effects, then we may be unwittingly perpetuating the problems we dread most. By trying to avoid pain in the short term, we term, we often end up making decision that create pain in the long term and when we arrive further down the river we tell ourselves that the problems are permanent and unchangeable that they come with territory.
Probably the most pervasive false belief most of us harbor is the fallacy that only some superhuman act will have the power to run our problems around. Nothing could be further from the truth. Life is cumulative. Whatever results we are experiencing in our lives are the accumulation f a host of small decision we have made as individuals, as a family as a community as a society and as special. The success or failure of our lives is usually not the result of one cataclysmic even or earthshaking decision, although sometimes it may look that way. Rather success or failure is determined by the decisions we make and the actions we take every day.
By the same token, then, it is the daily decisions and actions of each one of us, taking responsibility on an individual level that will truly make the difference in such matters as whether we are able to take care of our disadvantaged and whether we can learn to live in harmony with our environment. On order to bring about massive and far reaching changes both in our individual and joint destines, it is necessary to commit ourselves to constant and never ending improvement.
