Aug 03 2010
The Art of Making A Quality Decision
Your life is a series of choices, moment by moment and day by day.
The decisions you make is how you live your life. Quality choices yield a quality life. Poorly orchestrated choices yield a poorly orchestrated life.
How’s your life right now?
If you’re pleased with how things are going, you’re making the right choices. But if you’re not pleased with your life, it’s time to consider your choices. Or, better yet, consider how you go about making your choices.
It’s time to learn the art of making a quality decision.
Most people spend too much time “fretting” and not enough time doing. Do you ever find yourself thinking or saying, “I just can’t make-up my mind!” This inability to make a decision keeps you stuck where you are.
Putting off making a decision is actually making a decision. You’ve chosen to not take action. You’ve chosen the life you currently have over the life you would like to have.
A quality decision occurs when you take a committed course. A quality decision occurs when you take action.
You may be saying, “I’m sure this approach works for some people, but that’s not how I make a decision. You see, I don’t jump into anything quickly. I think it’s best to study and plan and discern and ponder. ”
While it may be true that you feel a need to do all of these things, the studying and planning and discerning and pondering are not the decision. These activities may, or may not, somehow eventually result in a quality decision, but they are not a quality decision.
A quality decision happens the instant you take committed action.
Do you want to change your life for the better? Do you want to build a life out of great choices? Do you want to be the kind of person who strides from quality decision to quality decision?
Then pick a course and take immediate action. And then do it again…and again. That’s the art of making a quality decision. That’s the way you make a quality life.
