How do you make decisions- serious ones? Many of us do so based on our emotions. We are driven by the urgency, the pressing need that fear carries or pulled by the impulse joy brings. When we make decisions solely in response to our emotions, we are leaving the outcome to chance.   The trouble is emotions are unreliable. And relying on them can lead us down the wrong path.   In this episode, I share real examples of how I have made decisions based on either fear or joy and the complications that resulted from them.   My hope is that by the end of this episode, you’d rejig your processes and draw from a place deeper than your mind.    Learn more about Emotional Decision Making at toksaruoture.com   Book reference: The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, by Bronnie Ware   Let's carry on the conversation on social: Instagram, Facebook and remember to leave a comment wherever you listen; this helps others find the podcast.

Your feelings drive your actions. It is possible to have one desire but work towards an unrelated goal, one that your intention dictates.  Here's some news for you; we don't get what we want. We get what we intend.   In this episode, I share a story of how I had the privilege of being mentored by a seasoned, successful businessman, yet I did not experience the business growth I wanted because my intentions did not line up with my desires.   If you don't know what your overall desires are, you will end up being impulsive and create short term fixes which will divert you from your actual goal. You've got to know what is driving your actions.   Read about Hidden Motives at toksaruoture.com and while you're there, why don't you join my friends' list? That way you can be informed of events, upcoming life classes and more.   Connect with me on Instagram, Facebook & LinkedIn: @toksaruoture   Book reference: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho  

Crossbreeding has its place in the animal and plant kingdom, but grafting your idea on to someone else's opinion guarantees an infertile result.   Hybrids take the benefits from both sides. Hybrids are also sterile and don’t have the life to keep reproducing.   Our gifts are given to help us navigate challenges so why do we graft the opinions of others on to ours?    You can develop the confidence to trust your ideas and stop running to people to approve them.    Your ideas have virtue, or life in them. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Philippians 4:8 KJV   Read the post on Other People’s Opinions on my blog, toksaruoture.com   Have you subscribed? Do so wherever Podcasts are played and don't forget to review this episode on iTunes

Authenticity is an elixir. It strips off the layers of expectation- ours and theirs- so we can connect as humans and experience the joy of simply being ourselves. Authentic living Is the mould which we fit perfectly into. You are an original, but your layers need to be removed. Does what you believe match up to what you say you believe? There is an invisible part of you that existed before you were created. Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew[ you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations More at toksaruoture.com