The Decision

Why making up your mind is not enough

In the first week of January you decide to start exercising. You buy the membership and the shoes, and it feels as if something has happened. But nothing has happened. The decision is made on the day you go there. Until then it is an intention with a receipt.

What holds takes time

Picture a pyramid with time along the base. At the bottom lie the things everyone knows: eat better, move more, sleep. They take a long time, they give nothing tomorrow, and they are the only things that hold. Higher up are the methods and the pills, and right at the top the quickest route of all: getting to it later.

Leadership has the same pyramid. A book you have bought but not read is the gym membership. What changes something lies at the bottom: reading, sitting down with the people you work with, and doing it again next week.

Do one thing today

You do not have to decide on the whole road. Read the booklet, it takes ten minutes. Or open the first step of the course and read the first page.

The booklet is free and may be shared freely. No registration needed.