Change is necessary. And hard. It takes Courageous Decisions to ignite change, but the small, day by day choices are the fuel that keep the fire of change burning.

Courageous Decisions are achieved with these three steps:

1) Decisions: Make the right decision to begin with. Quality decision-making is a skill that must be developed at the leadership level.

2) Choices: The choices you make on a daily basis will either compromise or protect the decision you just made.

3) Pivot: Be willing to walk away if necessary, know when to fold 'em.

There is no instant change. It is a process that happens at the decisions points. Change comes by making different decisions than you’ve made in the past in similar situations. Courageous decisions are both the big-ass, strategic, monumental decisions, that set strategy and direction and vision, and the small, minute decisions that are necessary to keep you on course throughout the journey. And in some ways it is easy to make the big, life-changing decisions. The real work, the real, lasting change occurs in the day-to-day, moment-by-moment choices that we make. At every decision point, we have an opportunity to create the change we’ve already said we want and know that we need, or to retreat back to the status quo. 

It is the decisions we make that determine whether or not we will stay comfortably at rest or on our current path, or allow the force of change to do its work. 

As leaders, our job is to ADVANCE CHANGE. It's what we're here for!

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