Developing Lifetime Action Plans: The Art of Decision Making (Wisdom)
An Excerpt From the Curriculum of the 4th Grapevine
Thoughts:
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If you don’t know where you’re going, you will end up somewhere else.
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What do you want and what are you willing to give up to get it?
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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Coming events cast their shadows before.
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The future is not what it used to be.
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Habits grow from cobwebs to cables.
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Most ineffective problem-solving effort is the enlargement of an already decided-upon
solution.
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Tangibles as well as intangibles and emotions are involved in decision-making.
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Sometimes it’s more effective to ask for forgiveness than permission.
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You can’t please everybody.
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Never bring the problem-solving phase into the decision-making phase.
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General problems aren’t solvable, specific ones are.
- Every decision should result
in a contribution toward the goal achievement.
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Recognize that a decision will start a chain of actions.
- Usually there are several
satisfactory choices.
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Effective decision-making requires sufficient time.
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Use creative thinking in decision-making.
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Make the decision, never default.
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Decision-making is mental; it must be transferred into physician action.
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Institute follow-up to each decision.
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Practice decision-making to acquire proficiency.
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There is no such thing as either a perfect or risk-free decision.
Successful Life-Changing Decisions Have Built-In Conflicts:
- Knowledge versus habit.
- Newness versus tradition.
- Risk and opportunity versus the safety of today.
- Known facts versus intuition and optimism.
- The known versus the unknown.
- Social acceptance of the status quo versus not conforming
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