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Yogi Berra once said, “Prediction is very hard, especially when it is about the future.” And yes, that is the problem with resolutions. They have to overcome all the stumbling blocks that lay in that time yet to come.
He was just a little boy who wanted to sell his pottery. It helped to feed his family and all he needed was for the tourist to say, “Yes.”
But the tourist was trying to bargain, to drive the already low price down even farther and the little boy was saying for the third time, “I mean no disrespect, Sir, but I weigh my piece of pottery, calculate my time spent making it and that is the cost.”
Life is like that, isn’t it.
Every decision we make has to be weighed and we have to decide what the cost will be.
Sometimes we have made wrong decisions and hoped we would not have to pay the cost, but it cost every bit of pain and problem we knew it would. We usually can easily speculate what is coming after what we have just done or left undone.
Yes, and sometimes when we have made right decisions, and though they may have cost us dearly in time and effort because there was sacrifice in them, we have given prayers of thanks for it was all worth the effort and the cost. It did give the joy and peace we felt it would.
How to make better decisions?
Realize that the secret to success is learning how to fail. I have learned as much if not more from my failures than my successes.
Accept the fact that problems are a part of life we may prefer not to have but that they are still a part of life.
Picture yourself as a decisive person rather than constantly reiterating “I can’t ever make up my mind.” This becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
Hopefully you have a value system. Consult the results of a decision. Does it fit with who you are.
Seek opinions from others. The idea is not to blindly follow others but rather meld their thoughts with yours for a better mix or…using their idea to convince you that your idea really is the right one for you.
Remember that all decisions are reversible. If time proves you have made a definite mistake in a decision just leave it and get on with a new direction.
I am an old pilot and particularly when I flew VFR (Visual Flight Reference) I was always having to adjust my course. So it is with decisions.
So it with life.
I like the old saying, “Stay committed in your goals but flexible in your approaches.” Time changes things and sometimes we have to crawl where once we ran but that does not mean we cannot still move steadily and unwaveringly toward our dreams.
Beware of public opinion. Just because it is loud and oft repeated does not mean it is true.
Rush your decisions and you may well see too many things as a blur.
How’s your memory? Do you really want to spend your life remembering mistakes you know you should never have made?
It is amazing what you can achieve if you never utter the words, “I can’t.”
If you love others more than yourself such love will become a candle that will keep you out of the darkness of selfishness.
Beware of wrong turns. The journey back may be longer and harder than you can imagine.
Every decisions you make is stamped with one of two words, ”Cowardice or courage.”
What are your values’ vice or virtue?
Democracy is not the vote of all the people…it is the vote of all the people who speak up.
We live in two worlds…the world as it is…and what it is be because we made it better or worse. (THREE RECENT THOUGHT PIECES ON WYRICK’S WRITING’S “Wisdom is” Who Wins if You Do Nothing but Battle Life?” “A Journey Through Grief”
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