"We can either make our choices deliberately or allow other people’s agendas to control our lives."
GREG MCKEOWN
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Locus Of Control
We all have either an internal or an external locus of control. This cognitive mechanism provides us with confidence that we can change the elements of our lives.
Having the locus of control on the outside makes it subject to every twist and turn of our lives, making us f...
Mental Shortcuts
We don’t have complete control of our decision-making because we take mental shortcuts, using inbuilt biases which are supposed to improve the efficiency of our choices and actions.
We often use these shortcuts when deciding what to eat. For instance, we might decide that a food i...
Choices That Influence Our Motivation
The choices that are most powerful in generating motivation convince us we’re in control and endow our actions with larger meaning.
An internal locus of control emerges when we develop a mental habit of transforming chores into meaningful choices, when we assert tha...
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