Wouldn\u2019t life be so much easier if we could make all our decisions with a little game of \u201cEeny, meeny,miny, moe\u201d.\u00a0 Seriously!\u00a0 How cool would that be?\u00a0 And how much less stress would we have throughout our day when decisions have to be made?!<\/p>\n
Yeah, well it\u2019s too bad life doesn\u2019t work that way if you ask me. Look, in business situations I am actually dang good at making decisions quickly and feeling good about them, but in my personal life\u2026not so much!\u00a0 Having to make decisions about my personal life is definitely not on my list of favorite things to have to do.\u00a0 In my business life I was forced to become good at making decisions because I was the CEO of a big company with over 1,800 employees who all counted on me to make the right decisions quickly, so I became really comfortable doing so.\u00a0 But once my workday was over if someone asked me what I wanted for dinner that night I couldn\u2019t handle the pressure of making that decision\u2026crazy,\u00a0 I know, but it was true.\u00a0 For some reason once my work day was over the last thing I wanted to do was make any decisions about my personal life.<\/p>\n
Well even though I sold my company and I no longer have so many employees counting on me, I still haven\u2019t gotten over my lack of enjoyment for making decisions.\u00a0 So you can just imagine how happy I feel about having to make the fifty gazillion decisions that have to be made in building our new house!\u00a0 ARRGGHHH\u2026.it feels like my head is going to explode!\u00a0 And my problem is that I can\u2019t just point at something and say \u201cthat one\u201d\u2026oh, no\u2026it could never be that easy\u2026first I have to research the heck out of every stinking option that has ever existed out there to make sure I know what all my options are.\u00a0 Then I have to price compare every option to figure out the best price possible without being \u201cpenny wise, pound foolish\u201d.\u00a0 And that would sound like a wise thing to do until you consider the gazillions of items that have to be researched and compared, and then it is just plain madness!\u00a0 But at the same time I don\u2019t want to make a mistake with one of my choices because it will be a costly mistake and it will be one I will be stuck with for years to come to look at day after day in regret that I made the wrong choice.<\/p>\n
Funny how much that story parallels to most of the personal choices we have to make in our lives. Who we date, who we marry, how many kids we have, where to live, what house to live in, what school to go to, what career to pursue, what restaurant to eat at, which brand of laundry detergent to use, what car to drive, whether to drink skim milk or 2%….the list goes on and on and on. Some of the decisions are small and meaningless, while others, if made wrong, have consequences that are both costly and something we have to be stuck with the consequences of for years to come, living with regrets day after day.<\/p>\n
So what is the solution?\u00a0 How I wish I could say it was \u201ceeny, meeny, miny, moe\u201d, but I can\u2019t, because our life choices are far more important than that.\u00a0 No, the solution is a little more grown-up then making choices based on a childhood game.\u00a0 If I am honest with myself the best way to make personal choices is for me to make them the same way I did as the CEO of my company:\u00a0 \u00a0Look at the facts of the situation without letting any emotion or fear come into it.\u00a0 Just gather and study the facts to determine which appears to be the right answer to your decision.\u00a0 Don\u2019t base the decision on the consequence that might follow, base it on what is the RIGHT thing to do given all the facts.\u00a0 Then choose that decision and then pray that if in any way it\u2019s wrong that God will intervene and keep you from making a bad choice.\u00a0 Then move confidently forward with the decision you made, having faith that if it isn\u2019t right that God will find a way to stop you.\u00a0 Using that method to make choices in business has been truly MAGIC in my business life.\u00a0 Learning to set emotions and fears aside and go on the facts of what I saw, trying to make the best decision based on those facts, was what helped me to be so confident and decisive with my company.\u00a0 So now it\u2019s time to apply that to my personal life and all the decisions I face there.\u00a0 I figure if it worked so well for me before then it\u2019s time to use that method in every area of my life.<\/p>\n
Yes, eeny, meeny, miny, moe still sounds much easier, but it is far less likely to produce the RIGHT thing for our lives.\u00a0 So it\u2019s time to pull up those big kid panties and be decisive and confident and strong \u2013 making the best decisions on the facts, putting the fear and emotions aside while we do, then move forward in faith that it will all work out the way it should because you have now done your part.<\/p>\n
Have a great day!\u00a0 I am off to make more decisions \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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