Thoughts tend to come and go. Some hang around a while, guests overstaying their welcome. Some are fleeting, in the moment, requiring a notepad to-hand to record their passing. Your thoughts can be steady one time, erratic another.

So what really matters? That you decide. From that decision, to take action.

An impulse, a repeating desire to take action based on a compulsion that leads to doing something that you’d regret, and have regretted time and again. Maybe you have a goal that you’ve been putting off working towards. Maybe you’ve a habit that you’d rather put behind you. Your future is reflected in each present moment, on what you decide to do.

We can be a slave to those thoughts and emotions. Or we can walk on by that opportunity not to decide, to succumb to that repeat “the same old same old”.

This is where your power lies. It is what you decide in the moment. When you are aware of those old habitual patterns of doing, you are in a position of power to decide. Your life can transform in a single day, a single moment.

Being aware of those habitual patterns, for example if they are stressful and undermining, can help you make a decision towards steering those thoughts to a more positive end. Another important difference between thoughts and actions? Decisions are thoughts transformed by action.

Be aware of what drives you. Once you are aware of these inner forces, you my have an opportunity in applying your will to decide on a new path. Optimism and faith require decision to make them “real”, out there in the world.

Make a decision, a commitment. Know what direction your inner compass in pointing. Take responsibility for your life.

Be your own person. Making that decision has so much power in it, you’ll be astonished at where it can lead you.

There is a quote that Roberto Assagioli, the founder of a depth psychology, Psychosynthesis, that I feel best sums up this post: “There is no certainty; there is only adventure.”