#35 Days of Dares #6 Dare to Decide
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. Theodore Roosevelt
Whenever I go to restaurant with a lengthy menu, my husband groans. He usually scans it and within about thirty seconds has found what he’d like to eat. I seesaw between the salad, the chicken, the fish or something that’s totally different.
‘Make a decision!’ he often says to me.
We all have differing decision-making styles, depending on our personalities. I tend to be a person who likes to think things through, consider the consequences, weigh things up.
My husband pre-thinks a lot of things, and because of the strength of his knowledge, values and personality, when it’s time to decide he’s ready.
I may take a couple of goes at making a decision, however, once I’ve made the decision I pretty much stick to it.
We both get to the same destination, just one of us is a bit slower!
I get asked to mentor quite a few people in their 20’s and 30’s and often listen to them outlining the pros and cons of following their passions and dreams. Do I marry this person? Do I take that job? Should I quit that job?
I’m very patient as I understand the way they think because I’m like that too. However, even I get to the point of saying, ‘Just make a decision.’
Too often people who talk about doing something, just talk about it.
I want to be fitter.
I want to lose weight.
I want to write a book.
Then there is a big BUT.
Then come the excuses. I don’t have money. I don’t have time. I don’t have support.
I understand that we all have limitations in our lives that hold us back, but, at some point, you have to make a decision.
The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages;
the question is what he will do with the things he has.
The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face,
and resolves to change them,
he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
I’ve made some stupid decisions, I’ve made some great decisions. Decisions influence the stories of our lives. That’s why they are so important. We have to live with the consequences of the decisions we make.
You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.
Helen Mirren
The Bible tell us that all things work together for good. All of our decisions, whether good or bad, are our story. We just have to make sure that whatever decision we make, we stick to it, adapt it, make it work or leave it.
There is no magic potion, system or drug that will make life perfect. You just have to dare to decide. That’s an adventure we can all go on.
Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.
Phil McGraw
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