“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”    ― Theodore Roosevelt

Success in life is determined by your thoughts, your beliefs, and especially your choices.

We make so many decisions on a daily basis that it is impossible to come up with an accurate number.  One study suggests that it could be as high as 35,000.  As absurd as that sounds, consider a Cornell University study that found we make 226 decisions about food alone in a given 24 hour period.

And as your level of responsibility goes up, so does the opportunity for decisions to be made.  With a couple of thousand choices being made every hour, you can surely see the need for the subconscious to help us handle the workload.

Imagine the overwhelm if we were aware of all those choices.  The downside, however, is that our autopilot makes decisions based on our past and current belief systems.

This works well if our goal is to stay exactly where we are, but it becomes problematic when we want to achieve higher levels of success.  With that understanding, the challenge becomes taking manual control of the choices that have the power to change your life for the better.

Here are 4 choices that highly successful contractors and business owners make that seem to elude everyone else.

1. Control

The best of the best choose to be in control of their destiny, and therefore their success.  If you believe that life happens to you and that there is nothing you can do to change it, you will never find the success you are looking for.

If you’re not in control, you have a built in excuse for not achieving your goals.  Don’t set yourself up for failure.  Choose to believe you’re in control.

2.  Commitment

Many contractors commit to the change that growth requires, right up until the going gets tough.  Then they fall back into the perceived comfort of wherever they were before.

Top performers know that commitment doesn’t even get tested until adversity punches you in the mouth.  It’s not something that you possess, it’s a choice your make even though giving up looks like a much better option.

In case you’re wondering, it should feel like picking a fight you’re not at all sure you can win.  Commitment makes damn sure you do.

3. Opportunity

The most successful among us focus on the opportunity instead of being blinded by the risk.  This won’t come naturally, given the way we’re taught to think about money and our feelings about losing it.

But if you understand what’s happening, you can choose to place the emphasis on the potential gain instead of the risk of loss.

If you’re worried about making a mistake, be absolutely sure that you will.  Nobody’s perfect, so the goal is to win more than you lose and keep pushing forward.  Whatever you do, don’t let fear turn into inaction.   That’s a prescription for mediocrity, followed by a healthy dose of regret.

4. Knowledge

High level contractors and business owners learn how to be successful from those who have already achieved what they want to achieve.

That can be a hard pill to swallow at first.  As business owners, we believe that we can handle anything.  If we didn’t, we would never have had the confidence to start a business in the first place.

But it’s this self reliance that actually prevents us from seeking or accepting help when we need it the most.  Whether their business is struggling or they’re just stuck and can’t seem to get to the next level, successful people choose to learn from a proven winner.

Why hope you have enough time and resources to figure it out on your own?  Acquire the knowledge and achieve your goals.

If you truly want more success, find more successful people and do it the way they do it.

All the Best!

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