The Art of Making Right Decisions

You cannot imagine how much good just ten minutes of closing your eyes can do when it comes to making decisions! Now when we make decisions, brother, for some people—why ten minutes—even if they kept their eyes closed for ten years, they still wouldn't be able to reach any decision. I know such people too.

When you go to make a decision, you have to center your thoughts and actions around that decision. The more unnecessary things you do, the more trivial tasks you engage in, the more useless activities you give space to in your life, the further you'll drift from your decision. You alone are responsible for this.

All this hate commenting you do in various places, hate speech you give—tell me brother, what role do these play in your life? You can't accomplish anything in life. All your time gets wasted in the trivial things you do. How will you ever accomplish anything in life?! It's exactly right. You shouldn't be able to do anything at all. Those who achieve great things in life, those who do good things in life, they never give space to unnecessary work, to useless tasks in their lives. They don't even keep unnecessary thoughts in their heads.

The more unnecessary thoughts you keep in your head, the further you'll drift from necessary thoughts, the more difficulty you'll have making decisions in life. So the first task is to eliminate what you don't need in your life—eliminate it completely. What does it matter to you who did what or didn't do what? What Sushanta Pal wrote or didn't write, what Sushanta Pal did or didn't do—will any of this feed you or not? Will knowing these things play any role in your life or not? Complete nonsense!

Unfollow me, brother! Think about your own life. What will you gain by following me? Nothing at all. And whether you follow me or not makes no difference to me. Absolutely no difference. I like to write, so I write. I like to speak, so I speak. This is my life. I'll continue this way. What will you gain by researching me? What will you gain by researching an unnecessary person?

You do many things that don't need doing. You wander around, have fun! Brother, you can't have all the pleasures at once. You absolutely cannot have all pleasures together. Getting one pleasure means you have to eliminate another pleasure from life. If you cannot make decisions in life, the biggest culprit is yourself. Because you've given space to some unnecessary chapters in the book of your life, so you can't give space to the chapters that are necessary for you. So the biggest culprit here is yourself.

The first thing is to eliminate from your life what you don't need. Then whatever you want to work on—whatever you want to work on—job, business, studies, going abroad, or any family decision—focus on that. You have to give time to it, think about it. You have to work on its pros and cons, think about all the pros and cons. After thinking, if you delete all the unimportant things from your head, only then can you move forward.

Remember, to get something in life, you first have to lose everything you have. Let me say this again, breaking it down. If you want to get something good in life, you have to eliminate everything that's unnecessary and less important in your life right now. After eliminating them, you'll get something big. Small things are easily obtained—that's no big deal.

The small matters you get excited about—there's nothing to get excited about. What you get excited about in life is an important matter. If you get excited about things that aren't worth getting excited about, then you'll never get the things that are worth getting excited about. So your first task is to sit quietly about things that aren't worth getting excited about. Don't say a word about them. If possible, bid them farewell from your life. After bidding farewell, think a little about the decision you want to make, work on it. Talk to everyone relevant; discuss with those who are experienced. Then you'll be able to make that decision easily.

But the first thing is what I said—keeping your eyes closed for ten minutes—which is a metaphorical statement. Keeping your eyes closed doesn't literally mean keeping your eyes closed. It means bidding farewell to what you don't need in your life, sweeping them away. If you can't do this task, you won't get what you need in your life.

Remember, if you keep doing what you've been doing in life all this time, you'll never get something that wasn't in your life before. To get something new in life, you have to bid farewell to old useless things—this is the first task. I'm explaining this matter of bidding farewell to old things metaphorically like this: sit with your eyes closed for ten minutes, think a little about what you need to do, what you need to stop doing! Remove old notions from your head. Remove what you don't need. The more trivial things you give space to in your head, the more good things will move away from your head. Don't do these bad things.

If you must pursue someone, pursue yourself, not others. If you can do this small task, you'll be able to make a good decision.