Audacity: How to Make Fast and Efficient Decisions in Any Situation

By Dan Desmarques

Many of our problems in life arise from difficulty in deciding or for the fear of making the wrong decision. Despite this, the experience of making mistakes and the constant fear of making mistakes do not allow improving our ability to make good decisions.
The right decision, made with confidence, always starts from solid inner knowledge and is based on wisdom. A person may never have control over the future reality, and yet be able to make decisions that increase the potential for success.
The great leaders of human history, as well as successful entrepreneurs, have always been able to make the right decisions more often than most because they recognize elements in reality that other people cannot see.
In this book, you will discover what these elements are, and learn how to think effectively to maximize your results in all situations.

• Language: English
• Publisher: 22 Lions Bookstore
• Release date: Oct 17, 2021
• ISBN: 9791220866200

Dan Desmarques

Dan Desmarques is a twenty-one-times Amazon bestselling author with five titles ranking as no.1. He has been awarded in multiple areas — as an entrepreneur, business consultant, lecturer, graphic designer and music composer. His background experience includes being a university lecturer on the topics of academic writing, creative writing, pedagogy, economy, entrepreneurship and success skills, teaching both college lecturers, future high school teachers and science students. He is also the owner of 22 Lions Publishing and Alienexed Records. As a ghostwriter, he has been the author of more than 300 titles, and as a musician, he has produced more than 600 musical tracks. His work was featured on Voice of America, MTV Music Television, Netflix, Sky One, and various national radios and podcasts. More information at koji.to/dandesmarques

Book preview

Chapter 1 - How Problems Prevent Happiness

Throughout our existence, we are faced with problems that need to be resolved, dilemmas that leave us reflecting on the best attitude to take in a given situation.

In the end, it is the result of our choices that allows us to become aware of the meaning of each one of them.

We can never go back, and if we could, we wouldn't go so far in the wrong way. But also, without these mistakes, we could not have learned.

We always run after the truth without ever reaching it, because the truth we seek also transforms us. And in the face of these transformations, we lose many of the people we love and respect, because these people are immersed in another plane of reality, with other challenges, largely different from ours.

The faster we learn and transform, the faster is the process I just described. But that doesn't mean our results are more visible.

Internal transformations can rarely be seen from the outside. Only we know the meaning of our sorrows, our depressions, and our fears. Others cannot understand the same emotions in the same way, because their soul has gone through a different process, among other lifetimes, in other places.

We come across many souls in the course of our lifetimes, and we all seek the same, the same happiness, peace and spiritual fulfillment, but we all seek it differently throughout our lives and between lives. If this were not so, if the truth were already in us, all dilemmas would be mere illusions.

In a way, this is true, if we look at problems as illusions of different levels:

•  On the first level—we are faced with the force of inequality and misfortune;

•  On the second level — we are faced with the polarity of decision and opportunity;

•  On the third level—we face our own responsibility in shaping our problems.

•  It is on the third level that people realize how they created their problems.

At this last level, the person no longer says, She betrayed me but rather says I picked the wrong person; and no longer says, I was unemployed because I was fired, but rather I chose my profession and the wrong path in life; and no longer says, I am unhappy, but rather says I must take responsibility for my own happiness.

Most people are between the first and second stages, either because they still choose to be slaves to money, the need to belong to a system that places them at a certain social level, or because they feel dependent on emotional structures to survive.

The vast majority of people live terrified by the fear of loneliness, and this is what keeps them from venturing through new paths in life.

This terror comes in many ways, such as the disapproval of others, criticism, and different ways of thinking that lead to social segregation.

I've changed so much and so many times in my life, and I've had such different professions, in different countries too, that everyone I've met has disconnected from me. They felt that whoever they met was no longer the same person.

This is very normal to happen, because most, although they have eyes to see, are blind, they’re unable to see the soul of another human being and recognize the immortality of such a soul.

People cling to stereotypes and superficial perceptions of reality. And when that changes, they feel that such an individual has died, and they treat him in their minds that way, as if he had died.

A person with many friends has nothing to be proud of. He hasn't changed enough to lose them. But all that goes with the death of the body anyway.

Chapter 2 - The Illusion in Appearances

When we learn to make the right decisions, and not decisions motivated through our fears, all illusions fade and dilute in the feeling of responsibility for our future.

When that moment comes, we recognize that all beings in the world are in profound ignorance due to the illusion of dualities (Bhagavad Gita).

All the dualities we face, and therefore, all the decisions we need to make, fit into a dynamic that has nothing to do with the decision in front of us, but rather the future we intend to reach.

Here are some examples to explain this:

•  Whenever a person forces us to delay reaching our goal in life to satisfy hers, that person demonstrates selfishness. As soon as this selfishness is realized, the person will punish us for having helped him. It sounds ridiculous, but selfish people actually punish those who help them, as if they were motivated by a force greater than themselves to do so. Therefore, the decision to help someone selfish never exists. The decision, in this case, does not have to do with the help that is requested, but the mental state of the person asking for it;

•  In another case, I remember three job offers I received. One emerged in Europe and the other in Asia. The third came after I had already accepted the job offer in Asia. The two offers from Europe were more beneficial in financial terms. But I didn't go to Asia to earn more money, but to get to know other cultures. So it didn't matter how much I got on the other proposals. And by the way, I received dozens of job offers from Europe during this period, all with higher salaries. And