Whatever you decide to do will determine where you end up.
Decisions direct the path life. Whatever you decide to do will determine where you end up. Your decision to watch TV instead of life-changing messages might result in career stagnation. Your decision to skip exercising your body will affect your health and productivity at work. Your decision to start a company now may grow to solve a major world problem. The aftermath of a decision is series of other decisions. Today’s decision will have future consequences.
What do you look out for before you make quality decisions? Here are two questions to ask yourself before you enter the arena of quality decision making.
AM I READY FOR THIS? You cannot make decisions when you are not ready to take a bold step. Readiness is boldness to do something. There will never be a perfect time to make a right decision. Your readiness makes it so. Not everyone supported the construction of the Akosombo Dam when President Nkrumah wanted to build it. But he was ready to face all odds to make a quality decision that over fifty years now we are benefitting from it. Don’t wait for others to accept your decision before you make it. Quality decisions not made in their lifetime will affect many other people.
CAN I HANDLE THE EFFECTS? Brian Tracy wrote in 21 Secrets To Self-Made Millionaire that the iron law of life is The Law Of Cause And Effect. This law states that there is a cause to everything you are confronted with. The second element to consider is the effect factor. It is not all the consequences of a decision that you can predict but spell out as many as possible. Good effects excite. When God created the world, He looked and said, “It is good”. If you can write down some desirable effects, they will help you make quality decisions.
Quality decisions are birthed when you make many decisions. Action makes dreams real. One person who made one un-quality decision with generational negative effect was King David of Ancient Israel. His decision to go for another man’s wife called Bathsheba ended in a long family battle. Be guided by readinessand effect factors in making quality decisions. May you be changed!
© 2013 Eric Otchere
(I am youthful, ambitious and
a tool in the hand of God to help
build individual and corporate capacities
through knowledge-based services.)
