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This Is Why You Need A Personal Philosophy To Be Successful
Successful people are confident in who they are and the actions that they take in life. Our whole lives are full of decisions and actions. Each choice comes from some kind of thought process — good or bad.
Successful people have spent years crafting their decision-making skills and are confident when they decide about something that it’s the right decision, or at the least, the best choice at the time.
To make that decision, they have to have a personal philosophy — one in which they have probably spent years building, nurturing, and developing into their own. It most likely has origins from other people’s philosophies, but it becomes theirs over time, and they can use it confidently.
You need one too. We all need one.
Bill Walsh, Hall of Fame NFL Coach and creator of the West Coast Offense, has a comprehensive definition of philosophy:
“A philosophy is the aggregate of your attitudes toward fundamental matters and is derived from a process of consciously thinking about critical issues and developing rational reasons for holding one particular belief or position rather than another.”
