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Think strategic now, this is a military term. Strategic in the military means big picture, it means long term and the opposite is tactical thinking which again in the military means short-term thinking. It means immediate action it means what's happening right now, so there's a big difference in thinking long-term versus thinking short-term.
Short-term thinking says the doughnuts taste good, eat it. Short-term thinking says one workout doesn't matter I can skip it short-term tactical thinking says I should just finance this new car or this new watch or this new tv or whatever else instead of saving and paying cash for something that you can afford short term thinking encourages you to make short-term emotional decisions that hurt you in the long run and they don't move you toward your overall strategic goals.
The more short-term decisions you make decisions that are based on immediate gratification decisions based on quick emotional satisfaction the further from the path you will stray, so don't do that instead, think strategically.
Take action that improves your long-term position and moves you toward your long term goals also know this you need tactical wins you need to win battles to win the war you need to get out of bed you need to run, you need to work out you need to read and study and practice and you need to do things that you don't necessarily want to do and I know that can be hard that's why people lose the war that's why people never achieve their strategic goals they lose the little tactical battles the death of a thousand cuts one missed workout at a time one doughnut bypasses security and then another and then another and it all adds up why?
Because we don't think about the big In the picture we don't see the decay from altitude we don't see it from an elevated position we are like the frog boiling in the pot as the temperature slowly increases one degree at a time, one degree close to the depth, one degree closer to failure that is why to win tactically we have to think strategic all the time.
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