- It’s like that gut-wrenching feeling when you don’t follow your gut instinct -- even though you know you should.
- It's the simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings toward an object, person, or action
There are many reasons why you might experience ambivalence, and tuning into this dysergy can pay huge dividends toward achieving our most important goals and priorities.
Will what I’m about to do bring me closer to or take me further away from my goals?
Zig Ziglar
- This crucial question helps you to honestly and clearly establish your most important goal and priorities.
- You need to know what’s truly important to you.
- Objectively assess whether your current actions, attitudes, and behaviors align with that.
- You can literally apply this question to every aspect of your life -- your health, your finances, your relationships, your work, your family, you name it.
Re-source: Reassessment
the act or an instance of assessing again
In the end, every decision (or indecision, which is actually a decision in and of itself) has an opportunity cost. If you do one thing, you’re not doing something else, and vice versa.
- Does buying clothes you don’t need (with money you don’t have) helping you get out of debt?
- Probably not.
- Does taking a walk after dinner (instead of plopping down on the couch) help you lose those 10 pesky pounds?
- Probably so.
- Does checking your email every 5 minutes help you get started on that presentation, blog post, or project that you’ve been holding off?
- Probably not.
- Does thumbing through Facebook (instead of getting on the floor and playing with your child) enhance your relationship with your family?
- Nope.
- Does going to bed 30 minutes earlier allow you to get up 15 - 30 minutes earlier (before chaos sets in) so you can work on your top priority?
- Yep.
- Does lifting others up with genuine compliments (instead of gossiping behind their backs) help you become a more positive person?
- Absolutely.
- Does practicing gratitude (instead of focusing on what you don’t have) help put you in a better mood and give you more energy?
- Without a doubt.
Next time you’re feeling that sense of internal conflict, take the one-question survey: Is this behavior, activity, or attitude bringing me closer to or further from the person I want to be?
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