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A Good Decision for You

Decisions done right can be a good decision for you.

It is pretty hard at times to make a decision, or even beginning to climb up the mountain to make a decision.

Actually at times it might be better to remain indecisive, and see how events and situations unfold, of kind of reserving the option of letting the murky waters clear a bit and then possibly snapping into a decision at key decision points.

But of course sometimes that holding pattern of holding off on the decision feels to good, and it is hard to actually go forward into a decision

When attempting to climb to a mountaintop, it is good to be able to know that a last minute hold off or draw back might be the decision to make if changing conditions show that a further climb isn't warranted

Being decisive can operate at cross purposes as well.

People think they are decisive by making a decision and sticking by it.

Overall, this is not always a good policy.

You can and often should reserve the right to retreat or break away from a decision.

Especially using the idea of climbing a mountain, as the decision to go to the very top is tentative based on what you might be seeing as you continue the climb and the paths become steeper?

I may need to rethink, and go over prior considerations that now how another ray of light coming in on them.

It is better to premise that even if I am Ms. Decisive, there is an inherent degree of fallibility in a good number of decisions.

If you are hypersensitive to caffeine, the right decision is to 95 percent avoid it and that is a fairly infallible decision.

But for example, career and work decisions are quite fallible, even at points where for now you feel you have it all together.

It is probably more beneficial to see yourself as a fallible decision maker, even while trying to be the best possible decision maker and trying to make the best decision.

First, if you are trying to be infallible you are probably asking more of yourself than deliver.

That famous expression, "I never promised you are rose garden", is a good credo that you can say about yourself and your decision making.

It is good to realize that there is some percentage chance that, you could make some poor, in some ways deficient, bad or substantially wrong decisions.

 

One portion of errant decision making could be overrating things or giving something characteristics that it doesn't have.

There might be a tendency to overate situations, to give it a glow it doesn't have

An example is the exchange of the steady paycheck for working conditions that are bringing about the Groundhog Day effect, but not only that, it is Groundhog Day and getting worse each day.

Because I am trying to climb the mountain or the say corporate or career ladder, I am only seeing the top of the ladder and top of the mountain and not some of the real difficulties on the terrain on the way up this mountainside.

The reach of the goal becomes so paramount and so much the focus of a decision already made that I am barely looking at my footing as I traverse up the mountainside.

Things like good pay, prestige aren't the only things I should be looking at.

Whatever mountain I am climbing I can always backtrack and do something else and sometimes in a great job effort I might have a fading view on some excellent talents I do or did possess that are wasting away on this particular mountainside as I aim for this particular summit.

I must have other abilities that can be upheld and refined elsewhere and even if I proceed it is good to remember that and never actually get trapped in your own decision.

Those distant echoes of talents lost could be as issue as well.

 

There might be dangerous and difficult points to the decisions and points of no return depending on the climbing route to the top of the mountain.

 

Goals that involved  practical maintenance aspects like staying loose and limber may for the next round may be lost if you are hiking up a more difficult summit.

 

So even while going forward, you still want to subscribe to decisions and goals revolving around maintenance.

I want to maintain the ability while climbing a mountain to stay able to move around in any possible direction.

Sometimes people take on the role of the "super hero" while trying to make a decision.

The role of the " super here" might take forms but one might be dedication supreme, where people put a decision on maximum drive and then double up into an overdrive on it with the idea that more effort means more results.

The drive mode on this is such there is extensive and extended loyalty to the idea at hand and this might be actually just another escape route from decision making that would be made all along the way.

I am making this Herculean effort, I am well beyond deciding yet deciding may still be important even for the super hero.

Ideas like loyalty, devotion and the like might become too strong and operative and other relevant information becomes ignored and I might be making a misinformed decision.

Not only should the Titanic have steered away from the ice berg, it shouldn't have been in those icy waters to start with.

There was a lunacy to the process.

It was like the "super hero" ship caption or whoever was responsible for the path the Titanic took, was so overconfidence and over inflated that the path of the ship wasn't shifted even with the evidence in hand that the waters contained major bergs.

The "super hero" may be unrelenting in finalizing the decision but this can result in tunnel vision and not checking several things while trying to climb to the top of the mountain.

They might be just looking at their feet or just looking at the summit when they need to look all around and take in the surroundings as a whole and in specific segments on the climb up the mountain.

The next force to be aware of in decision making is the gravitational force of society's expectations and demands.

I should be rich; I should have a house on the hill, and garner all my decisions towards this mountaintop, and ignore or put in the background many other possible decisions.

I might have gotten into the push pull method of decision making

I've pushed myself along through hard driving and sustained effort.

I've pulled along my "partially reluctant" self, that self that realizes in part that the question here is what am I getting myself into

I realize I might in part be dragging myself through a perpetual turmoil of non delights and essentially many aspects of this may have no light at the end of any tunnel.

In climbing the mountain, you want to get to the top, take some pictures, pad yourself and maybe you're climbing brothers on the back, and retain the ability to meandering back to base camp 1 if not 2, in relative peace and safety, with a resplendent attitude of hope obtained and mostly gain.

Allow yourself to make the wrong but correctable decision is giving yourself some leeway.

I decide to go to a movie that is turning out to be awful, I can just switch theatres within the multiplex maybe and catch a little of something else or just outright walk out the door.

I can reach for the "correction mode" if I when I need to.

Sometimes people are making decisions mostly off what might be described as " glow."

Examples of glow would be the great idea that almost everybody is begging into.

The stock market has played out like that at times, seeming to be a universal panacea.

When dealing with the "shiny new car effect", see what is under the hood as well.

Don't glamorize on top of the glamour.

There can be overworked aspects to this especially in the world of marketing that is so much in the outer environment.
If everybody is in the mad rush to this glow, there might be nobody left the sound the horns of caution and restraint or to look into things a bit deeper.

Nobody is on hand to mind that store and for that reason you might be on your own and have to drum up self reliance when considering all that glows and glitter

There is the mode of decision making that has yes and no aspects.

Yes, I want to do this, but no, not at this price.

Yes, I want to go on a date, but no, I don't want to beg someone for their company.

Yes, I want a lot of money, but no,  I don't want to steal it, even if it is layered stealing under a veneer where I would almost never get caught.

Then there is the survivalist decision making.

There is that famous song by Gloria Gaynor,  " I will survive"

Yes, I will survive a bad decision if indeed I make a bad decision.

If I am afraid to make many decisions, some good possibilities will be lost.

Indeed, I might survive this mundane job for the next ten years, but my better creative instincts maybe not.

I'll survive if I always isolate myself from these beautiful people but one of my sources of uplift, joy and fellowship may be lost and may not make it.

I'll survive if I stop listening to these good tunes, but I may not get that touch of my spirit that I get most deeply from song

I'll survive if I sit in this office very waking hour for years, but my ability to run a mile, never mind a jaunt to those distant landscapes I always wanted to hike.

Yes, I'll survive, but if I forego all decisions of chance, I never really will take a chance and I will survive that, but I want more than that.

 

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