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Subconscious Decisions

If your future is dependent on your actions and decisions, and 95% of these are made automatically and subconsciously, what do you think your future looks like?

Olubunmi

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Subconscious Decisions
Created by Olubunmi Nmerenu

๐ƒ๐ข๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐š๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฑ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ“,๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ ๐๐ž๐œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก ๐๐š๐ฒ? ๐€๐ง๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ? ๐Ÿ‘‡

Most of these decisions are made automatically and unconsciously, c.95% to be very exact. ๐Ÿ˜ฏ

I tried to analyse this for a while, but I couldn't wrap my head around it. 35,000 decisions daily, and 95% of them are automatic and unconscious! Wow!

Can you pause for a moment and reflect on your day? Try to recall the decisions you made from the moment you woke up this morning. What kind of decisions did you mostly make today? Good or bad?

โ–ถ Did you wake up, pick up your phone and start scrolling through social media?

โ–ถ Did you snooze your alarm severally until you ran out of time and had to rush out?

โ–ถ Did you practice your morning routines? Do you even have a morning routine? ๐Ÿ˜‚

Some may argue that only a handful of these daily decisions are significant. But ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ฌ: ๐š๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ข๐ง๐ญ ๐๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐ž๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐๐ž๐œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ง๐ญ?

Let's talk a bit about the automatic and unconscious decisions we make. The key implication is that ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐๐ž๐œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐š๐๐ž ๐ญ๐จ๐๐š๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐ข๐๐ง'๐ญ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ. Imagine that!

Your subconscious mind made them for you based on the repository of past actions. It didn't need your permission!

If you woke up today and the first thing you did was scroll through social media, the odds are that you have repeated this action over and over again and your subconscious mind has registered it as the activity to do first thing in the morning.

There are numerous resources available on the topic of the subconscious mind. I highly recommend that you take some time to study how your mind works and how such an abstract concept like the subconscious mind can determine the outcome of your life.

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