25th April 2025
American Navy Seal, author & motivational speaker David Goggins, coined the concept of the 1-Second Decision.
The idea is simple: When you are doing something hard in life, you are making a second by second decision to keep going.
If you lose one of those seconds, you’ve lost.
Each second is an opportunity to keep going or to quit.
In that one second, you have to force your reason for continuing to be bigger than the pain that is pushing you to quit.
If you can win that 1-Second Decision, over and over and over again, you’ll be unstoppable.
When you’re facing a difficult task at work, take a second to refocus on your long-term goals and resist the urge to procrastinate or give up.
Whether, it is hitting the snooze button on your alarm, or the extra mile on your walk, the task you keep postponing, the talk you are not having or the page you are not writing, it just takes a 1 second to decide to do it or postpone it for another day which never comes.
Persevering or quitting is mostly a 1 second decision.
So the next time you encounter a great challenge in your life, think about it: What will you do with your 1-Second Decision?
Will you let the struggle win out over your why for being there?
Or will you force your why to be bigger than that struggle?
Remember, the 1-Second Decision can be the difference between success & failure, and it’s a skill that we can all learn & cultivate with practice.
So, the next time you find yourself facing a difficult decision or a daunting challenge, take a deep breath, regain control of your mind & make that one-second decision that will set you on the path to success.
The 1-Second Decision is yours, Own it & stay blessed forever.