This single decision will determine most of your life

The quality of your decisions determines the quality of your life.

But there’s one decision that determines all other decisions.

For myself, I made this meta-decision when I was young. I can’t remember exactly when — it had been on my mind since I was 10–12 years old — but there was a distinct point in time where I knew that the default life wasn’t for me. I despised it with my entire being.

The single most important decision I made was to not work all day on something I hate for an abysmal amount of money while yelling at the TV about politics and sports. To have all of my time sucked up by work, energy drained by tasks I didn’t choose, and money disappear to bills I didn’t even know I had to pay.

Many people ruin their lives because they can’t make that decision, let alone any decision. The average person is indecisive, and they don’t see the massive problem with that.

You’re hurling down the wrong path

When you’re born, you’re put on the default path.

Like a freight train hurling down tracks laid by a mixture of generations prior to you. You’ve accumulated 20 years of momentum by the time you exit your teenage years. Survival patterns cemented into your mind. Programming that…