A Clear Mind

You don’t know the true value of something until you let it go. Likewise, you only realise how parasitic something has been to you when you let it go,

We are sometimes faced with tough decisions of choice; should I say yes or should I say no? Should I pay now or should I pay later? And perhaps the most daunting of questions an investor asks; should I buy now or should I give the stock more time to shed some price?

These decisions tend to shape our future – immediate and foreseeable. They could be shaped for the best and they could be shaped for worse.

Letting an employee go may be the best decision for a business, and losing an employee may run the business to bankruptcy.

Everywhere we go, we make decisions and take actions that directly or indirectly affect us now or later.

We make business decisions, personal decisions, intimate decisions, decisions that concern us, decisions that do not “remotely” concern us (I call this ‘poke-nosing’), and decisions on behalf of people who have trusted us to make the right decisions on their behalf.

One thing that we most times end up doing is making and taking irrational and subjective decisions and actions. We end up regretting our actions and wishing we could turn back the hands of time.

But even when history repeats itself, when we are faced with the same situation as before, we still make the same mistake as before, the same misguided judgements out of our lack of foresight as before. Agreed, some of these decisions and actions are mistakes and not out of lack of foresight, while others have to be taken immediately with no time to make calculations and research for guidance in the making and taking decisions and actions.

In our every dealings and day-to-day inter-activities  we expect ourselves to make the right choices but sometimes fall short of doing this.

The key is to have a clear mind at the time we are about to make that move whether it be at the snap of a finger or after doing due dilligence and thorough research. And also very while having a clear mind is to be calm.