Look over the above title with great care – I’ve used the word ‘will’, as distinct from ‘can’. Where you find yourself in your life at this very moment in time is as a result of every split second choice you’ve made, moment to moment, right up to now. Let’s consider an example. I write personal development articles – loads of them. If I woke up first thing feeling fed up and didn’t bother doing anything about that sinking feeling, I might postpone writing the next article until tomorrow. That means that no one will see what I was going to write this morning – and one person who could otherwise read that article, might just have changed the course of my life. Perhaps it would be someone famous, perhaps a leader of public opinion who might take up my article as a consequence of which it would go viral and transform the traffic to my website. The fact is that the possibilities are infinite – and the possibilities in everyone’s life are infinite also.

But there’s a huge problem. If you cast your eye over any of the research from the area of psychology, you will understand what you probably are not even aware of – we make our choices on auto-pilot. Or, more accurately, our subconscious mind makes our moment to moment decisions on our behalf. Sadly, the average subconscious mind makes those decisions based on what psychology might describe as our ‘stored knowledge’. And that’s a very big problem. We learned all of our crucial stored knowledge before we were four years old! As a result you make each choice today based on so-called knowledge that is way past its sell-by date. The way you behave, your bad habits, how you’re feeling, what you think about yourself, what you think about your life and other people is all triggered automatically by your stored knowledge. In effect, as a normal adult, you never take any real decisions at all. And the result? Your life at present.

Realizing that each decision we take, in each moment along the way, has got us to where we are, we are in fact the authors of our own lives. The wonderful news is that, as our own authors, we can re-write the story by starting to make real choices and, as a result, take the real action that will change your life – not ‘can’ – will. So, the next thing that you do, do it differently. Something as simple as brushing your teeth with your ‘other’ hand will awaken you from your automatic sleep and set the an entirely new direction. You see, when you start actually making small choices for yourself, it leads to making the bigger choices that, as a I say, will really change the quality of your daily life.