Developing Lifetime Action Plans: The Art of Decision Making (Wisdom) 

An Excerpt From the Curriculum of the 4th Grapevine

Thoughts:

• If you don’t know where you’re going, you will end up somewhere else.
• What do you want and what are you willing to give up to get it?
• Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
• Coming events cast their shadows before.
• The future is not what it used to be.
• Habits grow from cobwebs to cables.
• Most ineffective problem-solving effort is the enlargement of an already decided-upon solution.
• Tangibles as well as intangibles and emotions are involved in decision-making.
• Sometimes it’s more effective to ask for forgiveness than permission.
• You can’t please everybody.
• Never bring the problem-solving phase into the decision-making phase.
• General problems aren’t solvable, specific ones are.
• Every decision should result in a contribution toward the goal achievement.
• Recognize that a decision will start a chain of actions.
• Usually there are several satisfactory choices.
• Effective decision-making requires sufficient time.
• Use creative thinking in decision-making.
• Make the decision, never default.
• Decision-making is mental; it must be transferred into physician action.
• Institute follow-up to each decision.
• Practice decision-making to acquire proficiency.
• 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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