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The Seven Decisions Flashcards

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One: The Responsible Decision

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The buck stops here. I accept responsibility for my past. I am responsible for my success. I will not let my history control my destiny.

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Two: The Guided Decision

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I will seed wisdom. God moves mountains to create the opportunity of His choosing. It is up to me to be ready to move myself.

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Three: The Active Decision

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I am a person of action. Many people move out of the way for a person on the run; others are caught up in his wake. I will be that person on the run!

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Taking consistent action is crucial to the realization of a successful life. We are often amazed, even baffled, by the accomplishments of highly successful people, yet many of their accomplishments occur because of relentless action.

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Andy Andrews

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Four: The Certain Decision

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I have a decided heart. Criticism, condemnation, and complaint are creatures of the wind. They come and go on the wasted breath of lesser beings and have no power over me.

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Five: The Joyful Decision

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Today I will choose to be happy. My very life is fashioned by choice. First I make choices. Then my choices make me.

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Six: The Compassionate Decision

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I will greet this day with a forgiving spirit. I know that God rarely uses a person whose main concern is what others are thinking.

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Harboring anger and resentment poisons our minds and hinders our ability to live the other six Decisions with any measure of effectiveness. Forgiveness frees our spirits.

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Andy Andrews

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Seven: The Persistent Decision

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I will persist without exception. Reason can only be stretched so far, but faith has no limits. The only limit to my realization of tomorrow is the doubt to which I hold fast today.

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Persisting “without exception” is key to achieving extraordinary levels of success in any area of life. When we consistently make the Persistent Decision, our success is boundless.

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Andy Andrews

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If decisions are choices … and our thinking dictates our decisions – then we are where we are because of our thinking.

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Andy Andrews

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In blaming other people and events, we weaken our power.

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Andy Andrews

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You must come to the self-realization that even though you couldn’t control any of the crazy things that have happened in your life, your choices in response to those things are what have led you down this path you don’t like.
We have the power to make choices that lead us to places we do not like. And that’s great news! If we can make choices that lead us to places we don’t like, then doesn’t it stand to reason that we can also make choices that will lead us to a place we do like? If where we are today is not in our control, then how can tomorrow’s fate be better? The game, then, becomes simple: make better choices.

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Andy Andrews

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You are where you are today mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally, and financially because o the quality of your thoughts, the perspectives you have about life, and your beliefs about yourself and others. In other words, your thinking. Do you truly desire a significant change in your life? Change your thinking!

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Andy Andrews

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That’s where success lies – on the far side of failure.

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Thomas Watson

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When we take responsibility, we realize that failure can be a classroom for the most profound lessons for success.

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Andy Andrews

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Unfortunately, many people run from their problems, not realizing that they are necessary stops on the road to the life they want.

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Andy Andrews

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Adversity prepares you for greatness. Challenges are gifts. Problems present opportunities to learn and grow. In times of adversity, you don’t have a problem to deal with; you have a choice to make.

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Andy Andrews

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A problem cannot be solved by the same consciousness that created it.

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Albert Einstein

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Were it not for the rough roads, you would never appreciate the super highways.

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Jimmy Dean

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Knowing that wisdom waits to be gathered, I will actively search her out. I will train my eyes and ears to read and listen to books and recordings that bring about positive changes in my personal relationships and a greater understanding of my fellow man. No longer will I bombard my mind with materials that feed my doubts and fears. I will read and listen only to that which increases my belief in myself and my future.

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I will seek wisdom.

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He who serves the most grows the fastest.

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I will seek wisdom.

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Most people mistake wisdom for education. Seeking wisdom is not the same as gaining knowledge. Knowledge is a precursor to wisdom. Wisdom includes an intuitive element, an insight gained from personal experience that serves us as we make choices in our lives. Seeking wisdom should be a continual process. The humility of the wisdom seeker is a defining characteristic of influential, wealthy, successful people.

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Andy Andrews

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There are three simple things you can do daily to chart your life-long search for wisdom: read, take the counsel of others, and serve others.

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Andy Andrews

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The past will never change. But you can change the future by changing your actions today. It is really a very simple process. We, as humans, are always in the process of change. Therefore, we might as well guide the direction in which we will change.

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Andy Andrews

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Guard your associations carefully. Anytime you tolerate mediocrity in your choice of companions, you become more comfortable with mediocrity in your own life. If a lazy man isn’t an irritation to you, it’s a sign that you have accepted slothfulness as a way of life.

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Andy Andrews

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A true friend holds you to a higher standard – he or she expects you to do what you said you were going to do, when you said you were going to do it. A true friend makes you better by his or her presence.

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Andy Andrews

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I leverage the insights, experiences, and decision-making abilities of intelligent people – and select three of four to be on my personal board of directors to help me make decisions. What are the chances I’m going to screw up big-time when I have the counsel of wise people in my life? Find people you can rely on and from whom you can seek counsel. This is a critical component of seeking wisdom!

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Andy Andrews

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Beginning today, I will create a new future by creating a new me. No longer will I dwell in a pit of despair, moaning over squandered time and lost opportunity. I can do nothing about the past. My future is immediate. I will grasp it in both hands and carry it with running feet. When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act! I seize the moment. I choose now.

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The Active Decision

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I am a person of action. I am energetic. I move quickly.

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The Active Decision

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Leading is doing. To lead, I must move forward. Many people move out of the way for a person on the run; others are caught up in his wake. My activity will create a wave of success for the people who follow. My activity will be consistent. It is true: an army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep!

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The Active Decision

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A person who moves neither left nor right is destined for mediocrity. When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me! He has given me a healthy mind to gather and sort information and the courage to come to a conclusion.
Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly. My decisions come quickly, and they lead to victory.

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The Active Decision

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I do not fear failure; for in my life, failure is a myth. Failure exists only for the person who quits. I do not quit.

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The Active Decision

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Yes, God feeds the birds, but He doesn’t throw the worms in their nests.

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Andy Andrews

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Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Unsuccessful people make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.

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Andy Andrews

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Fear is nothing but a misuse of the creativity God instilled in you.

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Andy Andrews

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We can’t do everything at once, but, by God, we can do something at once!

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Calvin Coolidge

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Take time to be deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in!

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Andrew Jackson

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I had, deep within me, the inability to do nothing…. I knew I may die, but I knew I would not die with a bullet in my back. I would not die in retreat. I am, at least, like the apostle Paul, who wrote, “This one thing I do. I press toward the mark.”

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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

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Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.

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Thomas Jefferson

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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act. Action will delineate and define you.

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Thomas Jefferson

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Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

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Thomas Jefferson

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I’m a believer in luck; and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

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Thomas Jefferson

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The greatest part of your life – your purpose – has yet to be lived.

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Andy Andrews

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There will be protection around you as you act and move and become what you were meant to be. You may never see it, but I can promise you this: there is no need to live the rest of your life – any part of your life – in fear.

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Andy Andrews

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Greatness comes at a cost. What will you have to give up to get what you want? Will it be petty habits or limiting beliefs? Will you have to give up your fears? Remember: thoughts don’t change anything until they are acted upon. Action changes everything.

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Andy Andrews

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The trick is not to get hooked on failure. You don’t need that monkey on your back. If something doesn’t work, jump off that track, take another train. There’s a big wide world out there, you’ve got countless options–don’t neglect a single one!

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Stan Lee

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Truth is truth. If a thousand people believe something foolish, it is still foolish! Truth is never dependent upon consensus of opinion. I have found that it is better to be alone and acting upon the truth in my heart than to follow a gaggle of silly geese doomed to mediocrity.

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The Certain Decision

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A decided heart is unwavering in the face of continual challenges and setbacks, and that ensures victory and a lifetime of greater fulfillment.

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The Certain Decision

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The purpose of analysis is to come to a conclusion! It’s not to continue to analyze. Get to it!

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Andy Andrews

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I’m always amazed at how many people in trouble confuse God’s will for their life with plain old bad decision making.

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Billy Graham

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Remember, most of the time you won’t have all the facts you need to give you a complete picture. You will, however, have all the facts you need to make a decision.

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Andy Andrews

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If we don’t decide what’s important in your lives, we’re going to end up doing things that are important to other people.

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Andy Andrews

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Think big! If what you’re working toward isn’t big enough, you’re going to be ambushed by bigger things every day of your life. Remember: If you’re hunting rabbits in tiger country, you gotta keep your eyes peeled for the tigers. But if you’re hunting tigers, you can just ignore the rabbits!

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Andy Andrews

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If you worry about what other people think, you will have more confidence in their opinions than you do in your own.

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Andy Andrews

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Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. Success requires the emotional balance of a committed heart. When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.

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Andy Andrews

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Criticism, condemnation, and complaint are creatures of the wind. They come and go on the wasted breath of lesser beings and have no power over me.

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Andy Andrews

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Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others. Remember this: if you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing!

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Andy Andrews

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Don’t make choices based on facts or percentages–they’ll always discourage you.

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Andy Andrews

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Let’s start living life with ‘what if’. What if life could be exactly as you choose? What if your heart is so powerful it creates the time you want with your children? What if you could be full-time mom or dad? What if you could have all your kids’ college education money saved up before they are freshmen? What if you could live without a house payment–with your mortgage paid in full?
If you could choose a perfect day, what would it look like? How early would you get up? How late would you sleep? Who would you choose to be around? And where on earth would you be?

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Andy Andrews

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When confronted with a challenge, a decided heart searches for a solution–it is only the undecided heart that searches for an escape. You can’t afford to wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why not? Because conditions are never exactly right!

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Andy Andrews

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Our very lives are fashioned by choice. First we make choices. Then our choices make us.

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The Joyful Decision

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Happiness is not an emotional phantom floating in and out of my life. Happiness is a choice. Happiness is the end result of certain thoughts and activities, which actually bring about a chemical reaction in my body. This reaction is totally under my control.

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The Joyful Decision

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I smile at every person I meet.
My smile has become my calling card. It is, after all, the most potent weapon I possess. My smile has the strength to forge bonds, break ice, and calm storms.

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The Joyful Decision

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Complaining is an activity just as listening to the radio is an activity. One may choose to turn on the radio, and one may choose not to turn on the radio. One may choose to complain, and one may choose not to complain. I choose not to complain.

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The Joyful Decision

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Happiness–true happiness, that is–comes from deep within. Happiness comes from a grateful heart. It is impossible to be ungrateful and happy at the same time. The seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.

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Andy Andrews

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Happy people get more opportunities because opportunities come from people, and people are attracted to happy people. And obviously, opportunities often translate into financial success.

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Andy Andrews

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People are drawn to a person with laughter in his heart. The world belongs to the enthusiastic, for people will follow them anywhere!

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Andy Andrews

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Forgiveness is a secret that is hidden in plain sight. It costs nothing and is worth millions. It is available to everyone and used by few. If you harness the power of forgiveness, you will be sought after and regarded highly. And not coincidentally, you will also be forgiven by others!

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The Compassionate Decision

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A forgiving spirit allows you to let go of the past and embrace a compelling new future. Harboring anger and resentment for others–regardless of whether or not “they deserve it”–poisons your soul and limits your growth. When you embrace forgiveness through the Compassionate Decision, your level of personal success becomes boundless.

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The Compassionate Decision

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Those who are critical of my goals and dreams simply do not understand the higher purpose to which I have been called. Therefore, their score does not affect my attitude or action. I forgive their lack of vision and forge ahead. I now know that criticism is part of the price paid for leaping past mediocrity.

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The Compassionate Decision

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I realize today that it is impossible to fight an enemy living in my head. By forgiving myself, I erase the doubt, fear, and frustration that have kept my past in the present. From this day forward, my history will cease to control my destiny. I have forgiven myself. My life has just begun.

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The Compassionate Decision

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Why would you want to manage something like anger? Forget about managing anger; let’s get rid of it. Anger resolution can be accomplished by utilizing the Compassionate Decision: “I will greet this day with a forgiving spirit.” And, yes, my friend, before you even ask the question, it really is just that simple!

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Andy Andrews

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Forgiveness is the ultimate resolution of anger.

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Andy Andrews

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I couldn’t find a rule in any book I’ve ever read (including the Bible) that said in order for me to forgive somebody, the person who committed the offense had to ask for it or deserve it.
Everything I read and everything I felt within my soul said, “Forgive. Let it go.” I see now that by forgiving, I’m giving myself the ultimate gift, because forgiveness affects me much more that it affects another. It’s not even mandatory that the person I’m forgiving be aware of it. Forgiveness often means more to the forgiver than it does to the person being forgiven.

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Andy Andrews

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Forgiveness is about you. Trust is about them. Forgiveness is about the past; trust is about the future. Do we forgive somebody who steals from us? Yes. Do we continue to do business with him? No.

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Andy Andrews

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Forgiveness is a decision, not an emotion. If we approach it through our emotions, our emotions inevitably drag us the other way. But if you will notice, emotions follow decisions. When we decide to forgive, our emotions follow along.

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Andy Andrews

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Asking for forgiveness is an amazing experience, and one that only truly extraordinary people will do. It’s much easier to simply let stuff slide, especially if the issue involves someone you’re not going to run into again or someone who doesn’t, on the surface, matter that much to you. But if he or she is a human being, a person on this planet with you, he or she matters. It takes courage to walk up to someone and say, “Hey, I need to talk to you. I owe you an apology, and I want to ask for your forgiveness.” Oftentimes your humility will create a bond or forge a new friendship that will benefit you in some way. This action almost always dissipates and resolves the anger.

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Andy Andrews

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When faced with the decision to forgive and forget, never make the excuse, “But no one knows what that person did to me!” That may be true, but the questions is: do you know what unforgiveness will do to you?

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John Mason

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There is one person you need to forgive that if you don’t, your effectiveness as a husband, as a wife, as a mother or father, as a friend or leader will suffer. The key to bringing your dreams into reality is forgiveness, and specifically, forgiveness of this one person. This one person, my friend, is you.

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Andy Andrews

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Forgive yourself. Begin anew. The simple act of forgiving yourself will change your life! you will be positioned to become the person you want to be when you finally ditch the weight of guilt and shame you’ve been piling on for years. Forgive yourself. your family’s not mad at you. Your friends aren’t mad at you. I’m not mad at you. God’s not mad at you. You don’t need to be mad at you either. Let it go. Forgive yourself and begin again.

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Andy Andrews

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When God wants to send you a gift, he wraps it up in a problem, and the bigger the gift that God sends you, the bigger the problem.

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Norman Vincent Peale

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Great leaders–great achievers–are rarely realistic by other people’s standards. Somehow, these successful people, often considered strange, pick their way through life ignoring or not hearing negative expectations and emotions. Consequently, they accomplish one great thing after another, never having heard what cannot be done. That is precisely why one should never tell a young person that something cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing!

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The Persistent Decision

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Today, I choose to persist without exception. No longer will I live in a dimension of distraction, my focus blown hither and yon like a leaf on a blustery day. I know the outcome I desire. I hold fast to my dreams. I stay the course. I do not quit.
I will persist without exception. I will continue despite exhaustion.

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The Persistent Decision

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Average people compare themselves with other people. That is why they are average. I compare myself to my potential. I am not average.

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The Persistent Decision

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I will persist without exception. I focus on results.
To achieve the results I desire, it is not even necessary that I enjoy the process. It is only important that I continue the process with my eyes on the outcome. An athlete does not enjoy the pain of training; an athlete enjoys the results of having trained.

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The Persistent Decision

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For me, faith will always be a sounder guide than reason because reason can only go so far–faith has no limits. I will expect miracles in my life because faith produces them every day. I will believe in the future that I do not see. That is faith. And the reward of this faith is to see the future that I believed.

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The Persistent Decision

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When you persist without exception, miracles occur. You find a way where there is no way. Anytime you make a statement that you’re going after something big–that you’re going to do something unusual, something great–and the reward is also big, it’s going to be hard. There is only a big reward for things that are tough to do. If it were easy, everyone would be doing it, and the reward would be small.

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Andy Andrews

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If you persist without exception, you will have to find a way where there is no way. And that is when miracles occur. Anytime you hit the wall, anytime you come to the end of the road, what you’re lacking isn’t money, mentorship, or time; you’re lacking an idea. That’s all–an idea.

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Andy Andrews

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Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

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Louis Pasteur

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You must know in the game of life, nothing is less important than the score at halftime. The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

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Andy Andrews

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All men are driven by faith or fear–one or the other–for both are the same. Faith or fear is the expectation of an event that hasn’t come to pass or the belief in something that cannot be seen or touched. A man of fear lives always on the edge of insanity. A man of faith lives in perpetual reward.

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Andy Andrews

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Constant detours do not bring a man into the presence of greatness. Detours do not build muscle, detours do not provide life’s lessons. Between you and anything significant will be giants in your path.

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Andy Andrews

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Beware of the temptation to detour! Distractions are everywhere: movies and television, music, and another universe on the Internet. Detours don’t build muscle; they don’t provide life’s lessons. Detours will only distract you from greatness, and greatness is your destination!

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Andy Andrews

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Wherever you are in your life at the moment, you are only at halftime. Yes, they ran up the score on you in the first half. You made some mistakes, but you’re about to run out on the field again with the lessons you learned; you will play a different game! Nothing is less important in life than the score at halftime. The tragedy would not be that you lost; the tragedy would be that you almost won and quit.

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Andy Andrews

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Circumstances are rulers of the weak, but they are the weapons of the wise.

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Andy Andrews

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Wouldn’t it be great if we could live our lives as if we’d already achieved everything we set out to do?
Can you live your life as if you have already won? You know there will be pitfalls. You know there will be difficult times ahead, but you’re not going to get scared or angry. Why? Because you are going to win!

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Andy Andrews

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When you stretch yourself, you grow, and life’s rewards are attained through this growth. A life of growth will bring you never-ending fulfillment.

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Andy Andrews

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The golden parts of you already exist. You just need to uncover them by bravely walking through the black doors of fear in your life. Walking through your fears will help you find your freedom. You may believe this, but you won’t know it until you face your fear and remove its roadblocks so you can realize your natural greatness.

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Andy Andrews

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What you do today matters for all of us. What you don’t do matters equally. Remember that our mistakes are in the past. We must forgive ourselves and move on. We choose what we want our lives to be about. What do you choose?

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Andy Andrews

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My destiny is assured. I have accepted responsibility for where I am, and I understand what I need to do to move forward in my life. The buck stops with me.

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A Destiny with Success

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I’m on a constant search for wisdom, through my associations and the books I read. I understand that a year from now, through the people with whom I associate, the books I have read, and the choices I have made, I can actually be a different person. I am moving into my destiny with a servant’s spirit.

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A Destiny with Success

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I choose to act now. I am a person of action. I am seizing this moment.

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A Destiny with Success

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I have a decided heart, and I will move; my destiny is assured!

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A Destiny with Success

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I have a decided heart, and I will move; my destiny is assured!
And I will move toward that destiny with a smile on my face because I choose to be happy.

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A Destiny with Success

106
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I have a light heart because I’ve forgiven everyone who has offended me. And most important, I’ve forgiven myself. Live has truly begun again because I understand the principles that will guide me through the second half.
The second half is where I win! The future begins right now. I will persist without exception.

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A Destiny with Success

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