#KeepItSimple Adulting and Decision-Making for the Millennial

By William Harvey Scott Jr.

#KeepItSimple
Healthy and effective Decision-making is one of the most difficult life skills for an individual to learn and to master. Most fundamentally, the best barometer for making any consistent decision is to look at the results of the decisions you are making. Ask yourself, “Are the decisions I’m making time and time again producing the results I desire?” “Or, do I just find myself feeling frustrated and defeated over and over again?” #KeepItSimple: Adulting and Decision-Making for the Millennial, is a book that will not only help you develop and strengthen your skills as a healthy and effective decision maker. It will help you elevate your quality of life and your sense of personal fulfillment by providing you with decision-making skills that can be applied to all areas of your life. This is true whether you’re looking for the perfect mate, the right career path, or how to accomplish a long-term goal like planning for retirement or purchasing your dream home.

• Language: English
• Publisher: William Harvey Scott Jr.
• Release date: Aug 10, 2019
• ISBN: 9781792305955

William Harvey Scott Jr.

William Harvey Scott Jr. lives in Atlanta, GA where he met, “the wife” aka Sunny Skies of 8 years, at the University of West Georgia. He is the CEO at WHSjr Holdings. William helps family, friends, mentees, and millennials to make better decisions and navigate this difficult thing called life also known as “Adulting”. Before starting a media and consulting company, William worked 15 years as a Government Accounting professional and a Military Intelligence contractor in the middle east during this time William developed a passion for working with young people, eagerly engaging them on how to adult and make better decisions through mentorship from his life experiences. The book #KeepItSimple is the first of a series of books addressing adulting and decision-making from a fresh, ear-to-street author, William. His second book release in the adulting and decision-making series will be “Masters of the Universe” upcoming soon. William is available for your speaking engagements (Youth detention centers, Foster homes, Youth groups/ministries, and more), training sessions (corporate team trainings), and coaching consultations.

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#KeepItSimple

Adulting and DecisionMaking for the Millennial

William Scott, Jr.

#KeepItSimple – Adulting and DecisionMaking for the Millennial

Copyright ©2019 by William Scott, Jr.

for Sunny Skies Media

Smashwords Edition

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

For information, contact Sunny Skies Media – [e-mail]

Edited by: So It Is Written – www.SoItIsWritten.net

Creative Consultant: Valarie Coleman Contributing

Editor: Mr. Anthony Parnell

Formatted by: Ya Ya Ya Creative – www.yayayacreative.com

Table of Contents

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Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1: A Willingness to Deal with the Ugly Truth

Chapter 2: No is the New Yes

Chapter 3: Seeds and Thorns

Chapter 4: Trees, Not Chairs

Chapter 5: Developing Discipline in Decision Making

Chapter 6: If It Costs You Your Peace, It’s Too Expensive

Chapter 7: Your Fresh Start to Better Decision Making

In Closing

About the Author

Connect with Keep It Simple Community

Foreword

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"The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, and the

unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow

the most." –ROBERT KIYOSAKI

In 2004, one of my mentors wrote a book titled, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow’s Success. After describing some misconceptions about success in his book, Maxwell turned his emphasis to why today matters so much and why we allow golden opportunities to slip so carelessly out of our grasp. He believes this happens mainly for three reasons.

The first reason is that we overexaggerate yesterday. Many of us either ride on our past successes, or dwell on our past failures. The sad reality is that despite how good the Creator has been to us, some of us choose to focus on what we could have done had things gone differently. Maxwell states, Almost any opportunity that went unpursued looks golden now that it’s too late to go after it. A dear friend of mine puts it this way: Young man dreams or old man wishes. Of course, I believe that it is never too late to pursue your dreams, but I am wise enough to know now that as you reach the latter years of your life, it is more difficult to spread your wings and fly. Remember that no matter how good or bad the previous day has been, we must maximize the opportunities today brings our way.William Scott lays out practical action steps that are indispensable for those of us who want to decrease the pain of overexaggerating yesterday.

The second reason we allow precious opportunities to slip away is that we overestimate tomorrow. No one knows what tomorrow may hold; therefore, it is best to take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves today. The way we often imagine the future is through the hope that what is possible for others is also possible for us. There is only one small problem with this frame of thought, and Maxwell puts it this way:

"Hoping for a good future without investing in today

is like a farmer waiting for a crop without ever

planting any seed!"

Most millennials do not have a frame of reference for Maxwell’s analogy. Some have never held a seed in their hand, nonetheless seen a crop. Maybe this analogy will help. Hoping for a good future without investing is like Cardi B trying to make money moves without first spending countless hours in the studio trying to perfect her craft. There is an ancient manuscript that says as long as the earth remains, there will be seedtime and harvest. The only time the word harvest comes before seedtime is in the dictionary. As you read this book, you will become pregnant with ideas about how to make money moves that will bring you wealth for