Too Good to Keep to Myself

Over the past year — exploring the depth of 5 Great Decisions®, working with a cohort of twelve people, and writing the book — I discovered there is so much more beneath the surface of this simple practice.

Making five intentional decisions each day will have a profound impact on shaping your future. Not through willpower or discipline, but through recognizing decision moments as opportunities to step into your ideal self.

What I didn't expect was that this discovery would come with a realization:

When you find a practice that genuinely helps people live more intentionally, you have a responsibility to not keep it to yourself. To not let it remain small. But instead to generously offer it to others — as though extending a gift.

That realization changed everything for me.

Because without it, I'd have moved on. That's honestly who I am. I'm a creator. I love to build something, invest everything in it, and then turn toward the next thing. It's not restlessness — it's just where my energy lives. Author Barbara Sher, someone whose work I've known for years and who I was fortunate to know personally, had a name for people like me: Scanners. People who are wired to create and explore, not to maintain and repeat.

Left to my own nature, I'd have finished the book and quietly moved on.

But I can't. Not with this.

So I made a decision — fittingly — about how I would share 5GD. Not by trying to talk people into something — but by sharing openly and trusting the practice to speak for itself. Keep showing up, share the practice, tell stories of how it applies to real lives, and make it easy for the people it resonates with to pass it on to someone they care about.

That's it. Generous, simple, honest.

Here's the practice in its simplest form: every day, make five intentional decisions that align with who you want to become, a goal you're working toward, or a gift you want to give your future self. Write them down.

Try it tomorrow morning. Ask yourself: “What are five decisions I can make today that are a gift to my future self?” Write them down. See what shifts.

And if something does — share it with someone who could use it. Not as a pitch. Just as one person saying to another: “try this.”

If you want to go deeper — to understand not just what 5GD is but why it works — that's what the book is for: 5 Great Decisions

That's how I believe 5 Great Decisions will grow. One honest conversation at a time.