Anthony Robbins talks a lot about decisions. One of his lines is that quality of your life lies within quality of your decisions. There is a lot of truth in what he talks about. Think about it. Each time you are faced with a decision, you are making a choice that will affect events that shape your life. I know that there have been many times I've made some bad choices, and my life suffered as a result. And when I made better choices, my life improved. I know you've also had similar experiences.

So if quality of our decisions determines quality of our life, how do we go about making better choices? Most of time it comes down to experience and education. Every time we are faced with a choice, our mind reviews our past experiences to see if we have any information that relates to current situation. If we do have previous knowledge, and that knowledge is extensive, covering many different circumstances, then we have plenty of information with which to make a quality decision. If information we have is scanty and limited, then quality of our decision based on that information will be more questionable.

This sounds very good in theory, but let's see how it sounds in actual practice. Let's say that you've just made a decision to increase your income this year. How much information do you have regarding increasing income? If you're like most people, you learn a skill and get a job. If you perform that job well, then you get rewarded by a raise in pay and possibly an increase in responsibility. That increase in responsibility results in having to learn new skills. What this means, if that if you are like most people, information you have regarding increasing income leads you to believe that you have to get yourself promoted to a more responsible position or perform better in your current job to earn more money.

But is this only route to increased income? Is job you have now, or company you work for, only way you can make money? Obviously not, since there are many other people making money who are not in your company. One of best ideas that I ever came across for gathering best information on any subject (in order to make best decisions regarding that subject) was to find out who are people who excel in that subject. If you want to learn about physics, best people to talk to are physicists. If you want to learn about making money, best people to talk to are those making most money.