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I can’t tell you how many times I hear or read about something and go, “That’s a good idea; good thing I’m already doing that.”

As entrepreneurs, it is important to achieve a level of enlightenment where you unconsciously and automatically choose good decisions.

You need to see what you should do, what you need to do, and what you would like to do and how you should go about implementing them in the right way without much research. It should become something automatic.

For me, things become second nature by the way I approach topics and new ideas, apply them to what I do, and practice them. It’s more in how I absorb them into the overall big picture rather than simply understanding what I’m reading.

I’m always learning. That is the key, to learn. Learning allows the brain to make connections with similar and dissimilar things. This can lead to creativity. Of course experience is part of it, too. But learning comes first.

When you read, study and learn, apply it to your overall entrepreneurial mentality and the bigger picture. You can train your mind to think in a certain way, it just takes practice.

I suppose the point I’m trying to make here is you should strive to mold yourself into a person that makes good decisions without having to read or learn what decision it is you should make. At some point, good decision making needs to become second nature.

Is it an exact science? Nope. Everyone’s different. But there clearly are entrepreneurs who by nature make good business decisions and others who struggle with them.

If you’re not there yet, what are you going to do to get yourself there?