This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 24-04, an excerpt from the book Original Wisdom,

Harness the Power of the Authentic U by Donna Bond, and I'm Justin Mollick.

Welcome to Optimal Living Daily with the OLD podcast where I read to you from some of

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And I'll keep the intro short and tell you about the author right after the reading,

so for now let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.

An excerpt from the book Original Wisdom, Harness the Power of the Authentic U by Donna Bond.

One of the hardest parts of decision making is getting hung up on the how.

This is a planning strategy employed by your ego and wants to check the database so

I can see all the steps. You prevent yourself from deciding because you've forgotten how

to dream. You don't allow yourself to imagine what would be amazing or what you would love

because your ego will get you stuck on how it's going to come about.

This is a tricky tactic to keep you in your safe little comfort zone. You don't know

what is out there so you subconsciously talk yourself into staying right here, here in

the place of stuckness. So how do you get unstuck? Well, are you willing to consider that

the how is not up to you? The how is actually not your job. Your only job is to be really

really clear on what you want and why you want it. Leave the how up to the universe.

Can you trust that you will be shown? Remember your logical or physical mind is only

capable of observing how something has occurred or unfolded in the past. It is not designed

to know how something will happen in the future. Only your higher self or spirit knows

how something will happen. When I left my lucrative corporate career, I knew I wanted to do work

in the world that made a difference on a broader scale. I knew why I wanted to do that

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