The two most important decisions of my life

Where the previous lessons were repetition of principles introduced earlier, Day 12 is something alltogether new.

It's about the decisions we make and the behaviors we engage in - and how they form our future.

Mark has some really good points on how weakening decisions and weakening behaviors put us on a downward spiral, where it gets increasingly difficult to make the empowering decisions and engage in empowering behavior.

If you make a disempowering decision once, such as leaving your used plates on the kitchen table instead of putting them in the dishwasher immediately, then that weakening decision becomes easier to make the next time, and the next time and so on - until it has gotten to be a bad habit.

On the other hand, if your take care of your used plates immediately after dinner just once, then it becomes easier to also do it the day after, and the day after - until it has become a good habit.

It's kinda the same when Anthony Robbins talks about CANI (Constant And Neverending Improvement).

An interesting things about habits is that they run on autopilot because you have trained them so many times. It leaves room for new tasks that need more of your conscious attention and directed energy.

I'm not sure if this will be in the next lessons, but I've found that it's very effective to run a Meta-Yes pattern on your empowering decisions and behaviors, and a Meta-No pattern on your disempowering decisions and behaviors.