Life isn’t complicated. In fact, the very heights our life will reach (or not), is down to FIVE decisions that decide everything.

Just five!

And yet they influence our full destiny, and continue to decide our life for all our life, until we know just what they are. These tell us who we are, what the prospects will be for that person, and define the whole significance and direction of who we become and what we experience.

They are the same for the celebrity as well as the average person on the street. They are the ones that have mapped out your life from day 1. And they are the decisions that make a pauper out of a millionaire, or a self made success out of a failure.

Just ask Warwick Davis.

Warwick stands only 3ft 6 inches tall but stands very tall as an accomplished actor. He was born with a rare bone growth disorder that leads to dwarfism. For most people with the same condition, that restriction alone has defined their life from the very start. Not so Warwick. He made the resolution that he was more, far more, than the size of his self. He would not accept anything else than a bigger future.

An opportunity appeared to act as an extra playing an Ewok in Return of the Jedi. As a firm Star Wars fan he jumped at it without any question. But chance was on his side even more. When fellow actor Kenny Baker fell ill, Warwick’s self-confidence as himself led him to being offered the prime role of Wicket. He excelled and began to craft a career in such roles that he became the ‘go-to’ person in films and TV series such as Willow, The Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, Doctor Who, and Merlin.

Now, years later, he is a BAFTA winner and one of the highest earning support actors of all time.

All because of the decision he took to define and decide his own life.

Famous and Fragile.

Being famous is a wonderful thing, right?

Well not for some because of what their mind is telling them.

Legendary pop star Michael Jackson, Transformers actress Megan Fox, Twilight actor Robert Pattinson, and singer Tom Grennan who has just spoke about it, have experienced (and still do), the mental obsessive disorder called Body Dysmorphia. No matter how beautiful, pretty, slim, or perfectly formed their bodies may be to the world, they only see ugliness, awful figures, or disfiguring body parts in some way. The naturally attractive Fox captures it when she said, ‘I don’t ever see myself the way other people see me’.

This is a living curse of vision stimulated by the mind. Whatever amazing careers they may have, whatever awards and praise they have won, whatever the millions of people who adore them, they are ashamed and depressed at themselves in the mirror.

It’s easy to say that if we were in their position we would love it, BUT, their tainted self image is a personal version we carry somewhere in our mentality. Not bodily perhaps, but in some other way for sure. And carry it in the 5 decisions that have defined and decided our whole life path, it’s level, and it’s progress.

The five that have been hidden but still show in who we are.

The Not so Famous Five.

These true stories above reflect how our own mental opinion about ourselves will dictate how and where we go.

Warwick Davis had a less than appealable look but he set his mind to believing in what he could accomplish. The celebs listed here (with countless other famous people who never admitted it) had fame, but their minds saw another view of who they were.

And that’s where the 5 decisions that decide life come in. There is NO specific list if you are expecting one. The type that’s some secret set of choices that will set you free and apart from the rest of the world. There IS the 5 decisions you have carried in your mind about you, life, and the world that has decided how your life has turned out. Or, in your head, should and will turn out. Ones like these –

1. You never rated yourself as clever or smart so best that you take a solid, simple job that just about pays the bills and takes little pushing of yourself to do.
2. Looks wise you thought you were fairly plain and everyone else seemed popular and attractive. Your response – to not be the centre of attention so you had few partners and stayed single (or married another unassuming person).
3. Finances were a struggle growing up so you believed money was scarce or limited. Therefore you never buy much new or spend your income on treats and rewards keeping it in the bank sitting there instead.
4. Sport was never a natural fit for you so you never did much exercise. Now your body feels old and weight is hard to shift but it’s OK as you don’t do fitness, it’s not your thing.
5. Playing safe is best. You have developed that belief so you still have the same house and job and rarely travel abroad. You don’t like to try new things as you don’t know what could go wrong.

Such scenarios are what has played out in all our lives. The successful have taken on their mindset and defeated it. The truly happy have won over any thoughts that tell them otherwise. The winners are those who decided to re-wire their brain to focus only on the end prize. And then go get it.

The rest of us have been held back by our 5 main decisions.

We are a self-fulfilling prophecy!

If your life has never matched up to what it could have been, take a good look in your main areas. Somewhere in them are the 5 decisions that have took you there and stuck you there. It’s time to know them. And it’s time to change them.

To make new decision that will give you the new life that always seemed out of reach. But it’s not far away at all.

You are only 5 decisions away from complete life change. Make them!!

Reference – Wikipdeia – Warwick Davis.

www.bddfoundation.org – famous people with BDD.

www.sheknows.com – 23 celebs who have opened up about Body Dysmorphia.

Photo attribution – by JerzyGorecki free to use under the Pixabay content license.