The “Next Step” System: how to make decisions without doubt and fear

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekDecisions, action, and self-sabotageThe Next Step systemAcceptanceAwareness, observation, and perceptionFear

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00The eternal question: "Am I doing the right thing?"
• 01:50The problem with outside advice
• 05:20Why even experts can give advice that only appears right
• 07:05Advice from ego: when people harm you "with the best intentions"
• 10:03How to give and receive advice with the actual person in mind
• 12:46The central problem: can you hear the right answer?
• 14:25The Next Step system: the method and how it differs from an abstract goal
• 21:34Why it is difficult to identify your next step
• 27:00What it takes to make the right decisions every day
• 28:42How to reduce the number of wrong steps
• 32:30What needs to be inside you for the next step to become natural
• 40:30How to identify your next step when you must decide here and now
• 53:40What to do about the fear of making a mistake when deciding

Claims made here

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• 00:13

  In today's video, we are looking at how a person can always know, and understand right now, whether everything they are doing is something they need.

  Alexander Volchek

• 05:34

  There are enormous numbers of examples of people saying it can be done: a blogger with ten million subscribers sits there explaining how easy it is to launch a YouTube channel.

  Alexander Volchek

• 10:27

  But that is my own understanding and vision of a solution; the person has to take responsibility themselves.

  Alexander Volchekprinciple

• 17:48

  Someone will say, "No, it isn't necessarily that these people enable you to earn money. They give you a mindset, a perception and understanding of the world, how it is structured, principles, and goals in life."

  Alexander Volchekcause

• 24:36

  When we talk about finding balance and making decisions, we have to enter the more complex nature of cause and effect.

  Alexander Volchekcauserecommendation

• 35:57

  Well, it remained by a couple of percent, perhaps half a percent or one percent stronger than before, because in some form it had always existed in my life.

  Alexander Volchekcausecomparison

• 48:54

  When I say time, we don't know whether that means ten minutes or thirty.

  Alexander Volchekcausedefinition

• 52:22

  It is very funny: as a husband or wife, I can open a business, run up astronomical losses, and saddle my partner with the debts.

  Alexander Volchekcause

• 59:06

  With your parents, you say, "We live together: conflict. We move apart: the same conflict, just less of it because we don't see each other every day."

  Alexander Volchekcauseprinciple

• 59:53

  That is why you need to keep looking at why you want a business, more money, or better relationships.

  Alexander Volchekcauserecommendation