![]() Every action - and every inaction - is the product of a decision. It’s easy for a person to be near-meaningless and, if you’re unlucky or choose to stay on the sidelines, to not touch anybody else’s life or happiness. My fifth-grade teacher used to say, all the damn time, “You Matter!” No, not necessarily. I just read the last sentence and feel like maybe I’m trying too hard. It’s the key to navigating by starlight and developing greater situational awareness. I’ve learned I need a framework - a set of values that help define how I want to live my life and serve as a lens through which to filter my thinking. Your instincts are a decent guide to survival and propagation, but a complex world offers exponentially more challenges and rewards. Ideally, it’s better to make the right decision in the first place. A step back from the wrong path is a step in the right direction. ![]() Be open to evolving, changing your mind when presented with new data or compelling views and insights. Your decisions are a guide and an action plan, not a suicide pact. People often mistake this for being principled … it’s not. But there’s being decisive, and then there’s being allergic to course correction. Granted, there’s a benefit to making decisions quickly, as speed can compensate, somewhat, for misdirection. I was more focused on proving my decisions were right … because I’m awesome … than on making the best ones. When I was younger, I embraced (subconsciously, as I was sleepwalking through life) the notion that you can make any decision the right one through leadership and persuasion. It’s been draining, and made me think about decision-making. I walked away, for now, from a long-time business partner and watched another be fired. ![]() This has been a week of difficult decisions.
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