Our attitude and decisions in life heavily determine how successful and happy we will become. No greater emphasis can be placed on these aspects. Control over ourselves is all we definitely attain.
As I sit here writing with my laptop on a desk, I’m thinking, what is the cost of my actions? As for one action I choose to take, I’m forgoing several other comparable actions, and that is the price I pay for my opportunity, my ‘Opportunity Cost’. I wonder how many… Or how often people consider the opportunity cost for their actions. Hopefully, I’m not the only one. This is a concept based in microeconomics, but like with many things, application and use are as flexible as you allow your mind to be. Arguments may arise to question relevance as it can restrict freedom and optionality, but then again, a multitude of factors impede them, to begin with, such is life.
We want the best for ourselves, yet our choices do not correlate with our desire; we all are prone to this. Procrastinating, doing things that come easy or that drift us along in life but then looking back in time, we feel guilt and uneasiness. Seeing the poisonous fruit of our labour. The optimal choices generally take more effort to perform but yield the more desirable rewards, yet a vast majority of people are unhappy and unwilling. Why? I often tell myself in situations, given I am not dead, I have not lost. Breath in your lungs and blood in your veins, green light. Keep going.
Differentiate the actions that you choose to make; they are not all equal in outcome, think. Why am I doing this? What could I be doing? What is the cost of my opportunity? Life is a constant equation of positives and negatives, gains and losses. Understanding the repercussions of actions allows you to make better-informed ones and helps with your allocation of resources essential to carrying out the tasks in the first place. We should not live like the majority of contemporary society. We deserve better. When you choose one action, you make two decisions as you decide not to do another. We cannot always make objectively correct decisions, we are human, but that does not stop people from obtaining their own personal worthiness.
Elon Musk, Cathay Wood, Leonardo Di Caprio, and Albert Einstein, to name a few extraordinary people in their respective fields. You’re probably thinking, I can’t believe he just compared me to Elon. We all are blank canvases. Our personality and actions determine what type of profound art we will become. Being the lover of video games he is, I’m sure Elon would love to play games forever, but there is a cost to that action; hence he is the man he is through the countless immeasurable actions he has taken and overseen. I ask myself, who do I want to become, and how will I get there? A difficult question to answer that morphs with time, given the information known.
Focus. One action. One day at a time. Ultimately you become whatever your actions and attitude define you as from a societal perspective. We cannot blame our upbringing or the cards we are dealt. We can only keep a goal in mind which will be ever changing as we progress and concentrate on ourselves, undeterred. Eventually, comprehension of what is truly desired will become known, and happiness will be derived even from struggles due to the purposefulness of our actions.
Right and wrong are not so black and white with decisions. That is the beauty; each has differing values based on the person and their desires.
Regardless of your situation and environment, you owe yourself to be the person you can be and your decisions will help you on your journey.
Actions worth gold are just as heavy and require sacrifice just as costly.
You can sell yourself short now, but only in the future will you realize your true value, regretfully.
Action does not appreciate. Do not wait.
