11.23.2011

Stop Making Bad Choices.

Who you are leads to what you do which determines the outcomes that you will experience.

All too often you are told by the experts to change your tactics, deployed new strategies, and change up what you do — all in the hopes of getting different outcomes.

And while a change of pace and fresh thinking — doing better things — never hurts your business, what will ultimately destroy your business has little to do with what you actually do.

It’s about who you are.

The bad choices that you allow yourself to make.

Things just don’t happen.  Bad things don’t just happen to you.

It’s easy to assume a fatalistic attitude and blame your predicament on bad timing or an unlucky situation.

That’s just irresponsible thinking .

Solving business problems has never been easier.  Stop making bad choices.

It’s that simple.

Bad choices, even small ones, lead to bad outcomes.

It may not all happen today.  It probably won’t happen the next day. But bad choices create a bad future — and usually at the worst and most unexpected of times.

It’s our choices to be selfish, argumentative, shortsighted, lazy, hurtful, and unforgiving.

These bad choices are personal accountability issues.

And while business isn’t entirely about the ethics you employ, the outcomes that you encounter are directly related to your ethics and attitude in everything that you do.

Personal and professional.

You can’t expect your bad personal decisions to not impact your business success.  That’s just not how it works.

What you do in your personal life directly impacts the success that you achieve — or don’t.  It’s all about the choices that you make.

The situation you are in right now is a result of the choices you made in the past.  Your future outcomes are about the choices you choose to make right now.

Stop trying to cheat the system and be accountable for what you’ve done.

Be accountable for who you are.

Stop making bad choices.


  • Saul Fleischman

    Dan, Welcome to The Business of Change/Triberr.  SKYPE osakasaul soon? Lots for you.  Also, your .rss is set up wrong.  The link in Triberr does not connect.  In Triberr I see while, above, I see http://danwaldschmidt.com/2011/11/edgyconversations/stop-making-bad-choices  Might that be the problem?  Talk with Dan Cristo…?

    • http://www.DanWaldschmidt.com/ Dan Waldschmidt

      Thanks, Saul.  I updated my blog a few days ago and so my RSS has not had a chance to redirect.    My upcoming posts should be redirected.  

      I look forward to getting to know you better.

      • http://osakabentures.com/english-2/saulfleischman/ Saul Fleischman

        Likewise! Say hi in SKYPE soon, okay?

  • Soulthink

    You are so correct…It’s about who I am.  And out of who I am comes what I do.  BUT, are decision made on my conscious level or my UN-conscious?  Hmmm.  I’m not stupid, but more often that I’d like to admit, I make stupid decisions that harm me, my company, my wife and others.  I don’t consciously think…”OK, now how can I screw THIS up?”.   But that is the “outcome I experience”. 

    Who I am as an adult was greatly influenced by the abuse and wounding in my childhood – where I learned many dysfunctional ways of being.  I am not alone in this Dan.  There are many men and women in every single office, shop, store and company throughout the world who want to “Stop making bad choices.”  Until those original wounds are faced, felt, balanced and healed, many of us make unconscious choices with “bad” results. 

    Either way, conscious or unconscious choices, I am responsible for all my decisions and subsequent results.

    Your thoughts Dan?

    PS.  I really liked your “Angry Enough To Do Something About It” article.  It hit home and is very inspiring.

    • http://www.DanWaldschmidt.com/ Dan Waldschmidt

      You are exactly right.

      The wounds we feel impact the life we live.

      We can not escape the past we try to run from.

      We have to muster the courage to weep about what moves us. To cleanse our soul of the fright that plagues our daily decisions.

      It’s not easy. But it’s the right choice.

      Dan

      p.s. My opinion…. You agree?

  • Alam

    Great article on how to make good business strategies, i enjoyed reading this impressive article .

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