Intentional Decision-making Quotes

Being proactive is more than taking initiative. It is recognizing that we are responsible for our own choices and have the freedom to choose based on principles and values rather than on moods or condition. Proactive people are agents of change and choose not to be victims, to be reactive, or to blame others.

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.

Luck is the residue of good planning.

Take responsibility for making conscious choices.

Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.

Realize that agendas drive data, not the other way round

A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from wall to wall and managing to survive. That's okay. But if you can start giving your life dimensions and design and color and objectives and purpose, the results can be staggering.

I won't say I'm uncompromising, but I won't compromise just for the hell of it.

Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident. There must be a plan for everything and the plan will prevent you from overlooking little things. By having that plan, you'll be secure and self-doubts will never become a factor.

People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.

My biggest past mistakes have been when I made decisions out of ego rather than spirit. When I acted too quickly. When I wasn't contemplative or reflective or prayerful enough, and I ended up making what I would only later see to be unwise decisions.

Let no act be done without purpose.

I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.

Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.

The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.

Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it's not a plan. It's a version of waiting and hoping.