What decisions have shaped your life?
The snowball effect means that minor, forgotten or subconscious decisions taken years ago may have had a profound impact further down the line. Visualize your life, on paper, as a flow stream of time. Start mapping outcomes backwards to the decisions that created them.
Think of this like the tracing precedents function in a spreadsheet. You are looking at all the inputs in your life that have created the current outputs. It could be job applications made years ago, random meetings with people, or attitudes you took at critical times. All of these choices might have seemed right at the time - could well have been right - but may now appear sub-optimal.
Also rejoice in the right decisions you have taken. What has succeeded, worked and developed fruitfully - and why?
Aristotle once said that the true character of the oak tree is fully contained within the acorn. Think about your life in those terms. The end is in the beginning and the beginning is in the end.
Do you agree, or can conscious choices make the tree grow stronger and taller?
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